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# Forward-Deployed Software Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Enterprise Software Applications, Data Ingestion, Build Management, Production Code, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8fe82bc576dfb454

## About the Role

* 3-5 years in a data-heavy, customer-facing software engineering role (e.g., Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Forward-Deployed Engineer, customer-facing SWE)
 * Experience in at least one customer-facing technical role (e.g., FDE, Solutions Architect)
 * Experience building and deploying data ingestion/integration pipelines using Python and SQL
 * Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and enterprise systems (ERPs, data warehouses)
 * Able to work hybrid from our San Francisco office (2-4 days per week)
 * Willing to travel occasionally to client sites

## Description

* High-impact enterprise work: Solve real-world data and engineering challenges directly with large enterprise clients.
 * Work with a strong team: Collaborate with accomplished AI researchers, data scientists, strategists, and platform engineers.
 * Ownership and growth: Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company with genuine market traction.
 * Shape the product: Your client-facing insights directly inform the product roadmap; you'll work with senior stakeholders and travel to client sites., As a Forward-Deployed Software Engineer, you'll work directly with enterprise clients to solve high-impact data and engineering challenges. You'll embed with client teams to understand their systems, extract and transform complex datasets, and build scalable solutions. This is a technical-first role: you'll write production-grade code, build data pipelines, and integrate with messy real-world systems.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Deploy on-site or work closely with client engineering teams to extract data from enterprise systems (ERPs, data warehouses, SaaS tools)
 * Write clean, efficient, maintainable code in Python, SQL, and other languages as needed
 * Build and deploy data pipelines, APIs, and internal tooling to support analytics and modeling workflows
 * Partner with customer stakeholders (technical and non-technical) to deeply understand their systems, workflows, and pain points
 * Collaborate with internal data scientists, strategists, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions
 * Surface client insights that inform the product roadmap and internal tooling priorities

Tech stack: Python, SQL, AWS


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