Forward Deployment Engineer

Forward Deployment Engineers are Walt’s strategic weapon for enterprise success.Walt is an agentic data engineering and analytics platform. Our customers don’t just “install software” — they reshape how data is modeled, queried, and reasoned over. FDEs sit at the center of that transformation.This role blends solutions architecture, product thinking, and hands-on engineering. You work directly with customers to scope problems, build real solutions, and take them all the way to production. One hour you might be debugging SQL; the next you’re whiteboarding data architecture with a VP; later you’re feeding insights back into the product roadmap.If you like owning outcomes end-to-end and operating close to real customer problems, this role is for you.What you’ll doOwn customer deployments, end-to-endFrame ambiguous problems and turn them into concrete technical plansLead PoCs → production rollouts → monitoring and iterationBe accountable for outcomes, not just deliverablesTranslate business goals into technical realityWork with customer stakeholders to understand analytics and data-engineering needsConvert loosely defined goals into clear schemas, metrics, and guardrailsBuild and optimize customer-specific implementationsDesign semantic models and data mappings across diverse schemasDebug and optimize SQL, APIs, and pipelines in real production environmentsEnsure accuracy, performance, and maintainabilityPartner with sales and productSupport pre-sales by scoping solutions and demonstrating real valueIdentify recurring patterns, gaps, and edge casesDrive product requirements, PRDs, and roadmap inputs grounded in real usageEnable customersTrain customer teams on Walt best practices and advanced featuresHelp customers become self-sufficient while remaining a trusted technical partnerWhat we’re looking forStrong engineering foundation3 years shipping and operating production softwareStrong Python and SQL; comfortable with APIs and servicesYou can debug real systems, not just write demosModern data stack experienceHands-on with Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similarOSS data tools experience strongly preferredComfortable reasoning about schemas, metrics, lineage, and data qualityExceptional communicationCan explain complex technical ideas clearly to both executives and engineersComfortable leading technical conversations with customersHigh ambiguity toleranceYou thrive when requirements are unclearYou define the path forward instead of waiting for instructionsCustomer empathyGenuinely curious about customer problemsYou care about whether the solution actually works, not just whether it shipped

Salary : $198,000 - $218,000