Forward Deployed Data Engineer

Datafold
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 110,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3-6 yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Stakeholder management","Ownership","Teamwork"]

Own end-to-end data platform migration projects for enterprise clients, combining data engineering, AI tooling, and project leadership. Serve as the primary customer liaison, plan and execute migrations, and collaborate with the Datafold engineering team to refine delivery playbooks while scaling capabilities for multiple concurrent projects.

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Datafold
Datafold
3 months ago

Forward Deployed Data Engineer

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end data platform migration projects for enterprise clients, combining data engineering, AI tooling, and project leadership. Serve as the primary customer liaison, plan and execute migrations, and collaborate with the Datafold engineering team to refine delivery playbooks while scaling capabilities for multiple concurrent projects.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own 1–4 concurrent migration projects end-to-end: scoping, planning, execution, and customer handoff
  • •Be the primary customer contact: run weekly check-ins, manage stakeholder expectations, and escalate risks early
  • •Configure Datafold’s Migration Agent and oversee the migration execution
  • •Partner with Datafold’s engineering team to execute migrations
  • •Help refine and scale our product and delivery playbook as the team grows

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 110,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •3–6 years in data consulting, professional services, or a customer-facing data engineering role
  • •Excellent communication skills, comfortable in executive check-ins and technical design sessions
  • •Strong grasp of the modern data stack (dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, orchestration tools) and patterns (stored procedures, streaming, incremental processing)
  • •Extreme ownership mentality with ability to surface and fix problems and rally the team
  • •AI power user who uses AI daily and continually learns to improve how it’s used
Experience:3-6 yearsData analyticsData engineeringAI
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingStakeholder managementOwnershipTeamwork
Tech Stack:DbtSnowflakeDatabricksOrchestrationETLStored proceduresStreamingIncremental processingAI

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Datafold
Provides a data observability platform that helps engineering and analytics teams detect, explain, and prevent data quality and regression issues across data pipelines, improving trust in analytics and reducing time spent on debugging data problems.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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