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Salary: USD 120,000 - 200,000 / annual
SingleStore is seeking a Forward Deployed 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 delivery.
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
You bring 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution engineering, or technical consulting (pre-sales and/or post-sales). You have a strong foundation in databases, distributed systems, or software engineering, with proven experience delivering production-grade solutions in customer-facing environments. You excel at integrating complex systems across data pipelines, applications, and infrastructure, and can translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and drive execution. Experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in financial services or high-tech environments, is highly preferred. You demonstrate strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to guide both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and balance technical innovation with pragmatic delivery and realistic scoping.
