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Salary: USD 120,000 - 200,000 / annual
SingleStore is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) to operate at the intersection of solution architecture, technical delivery, and customer partnership. This role combines elements of a solutions architect, technical account manager, and solution engineer, with a strong emphasis on execution and customer success.
As an FDE, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor for customers, helping them design, implement, and scale real-time data solutions using SingleStore's cloud-native distributed SQL database. You will work closely with enterprise customers to understand their business objectives, translate them into technical strategies, and drive those solutions into production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner directly with customers to understand their architecture, use cases, and business goals, translating them into scalable technical solutions
- Design and implement end-to-end solutions integrating SingleStore into existing application and data ecosystems
- Lead whiteboard sessions to shape ideas, define architecture, and convert concepts into technical specifications and execution plans
- Act as a proactive thought partner, bringing ideas and guiding conversations rather than reacting to requirements
- Own delivery of high-impact initiatives from concept through production, ensuring successful outcomes
- Provide hands-on support including troubleshooting, optimization, and applying pragmatic solutions when needed
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering teams to align customer needs with product capabilities
- Help customers prioritize and operationalize their data initiatives, balancing ambition with practical delivery
- Feed insights from customer engagements back into Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and improvements
Required experience includes 10+ years in solution architecture, solution engineering, or technical consulting (pre-sales and/or post-sales); strong foundation in databases, distributed systems, or software engineering; proven experience delivering production-grade solutions in customer-facing environments; experience integrating complex systems across data pipelines, applications, and infrastructure; ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans; and strong communication skills to guide both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience with enterprise customers in financial services or high-tech is highly preferred.
