Forward Deployment Engineer, SingleStore
$120-200k
+ Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses
Office located in Tri State Area, NY
Cloud-native database
Open for applications
Cloud-native database
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$120-200k
+ Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses
Office located in Tri State Area, NY
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To spark creativity, inspiration and evolution among every maker in the world.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a delivery mindset, strong technical depth, and the ability to lead both strategic conversations and hands-on execution
- 10+ years of experience 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 drive execution
- Experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in financial services or high-tech environments, is highly preferred
- Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to guide both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical innovation with pragmatic delivery and realistic scoping
- Alignment with product capabilities and roadmap, ensuring solutions are both impactful and feasible
- This is a customer-facing role, and we prefer candidates based in the NYC area or within a commutable distance
What the job involves
- 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
- As an FDE, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and sounding board for customers, helping them design, implement, and scale real-time data solutions using SingleStore
- You will work closely with customers to understand their business objectives, translate them into technical strategies, and drive those solutions into production
- Partner directly with customers to understand their architecture, use cases, and business goals, and translate 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 or fixes when needed
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering teams to align customer needs with product capabilities and roadmap
- 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
- SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications
- With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers
Our take
Organizations today are swimming in data, which can be difficult to manage. SingleStore provides a converged data platform for transactions and analytics, which organizations can use to process and analyze their most important time-critical application workloads.
The company can ingest and transform millions of events per day while also analyzing billions of rows of data using standard SQL, while its users can query the records in real-time. The hybrid architecture and speed of its technology are what differentiates it from competitors such as Oracle and SAP.
The vision for the company is the ability to access data anywhere, even beyond the SingleStore platform, through global federated access. In 2025, the company was bought by private equity house Vector Capital Management, a development which leads it into a new phase of innovation and growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Oct 2022
$30m
SERIES F
Jul 2022
$116m
LATE VC
Total funding: $414.3m
Company benefits
- Customize a benefits plan that include health, dental and vision that best fits you and your family
- Flexible time off, sick and parental leave programs, plus company holidays
- As a privately held company, we strive to give meaningful stock grants through our equity program
- Fitness subsidy, Modern Health App Subscription, Team Happy Hours and events
- Home Workstation. We provide the laptop, you design your home office any way you want it with a $500 equipment stipend
- Matching Charitable Donations. Corporate donation matching to charitable organizations with 1-week of paid volunteer time off
- Work remotely if it makes sense for you, your position, your team, and the company
- Commuter benefits
- Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
- Food perks
- 401k
- Fertility & Family Formation reimbursement
- FSA and team events and company offsites
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Raj Verma
(CEO)Joined SingleStore at the CEO in 2020. Prior to that, they were Co-CEO at MemSQL and CSO/COO/CRO at Apttus. They also worked at TIBCO Software for 5 years in a number of roles, including COO.
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