Forward Deployed Engineer, Collibra
Unstructured AI
$140-175k
Offers equity and bonus potential
2+ days a week in office
Data intelligence cloud
Open for applications
Data intelligence cloud
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$140-175k
Offers equity and bonus potential
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change how organizations use data, so that they can change the world.
Role
Who you are
- Shipped complex systems under ambiguity - balancing speed and precision in real customer environments
- Written and reviewed production-grade code across backend (Python, FastAPI)
- Built or deployed document-processing systems and are comfortable with CI/CD, monitoring, and debugging tools
- 2+ years of software engineering or technical deployment experience, ideally involving enterprise integrations, AI data processing, or customer-facing delivery
- Strong proficiency in Python (data processing, API development, and integrations)
- Proven ability to deliver production-grade systems that process large-scale unstructured data (PDFs, text, documents)
- Solid understanding of data pipelines, microservice architecture, and API design
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and containerization (Docker / Kubernetes)
- Experience with LLM-based or AI-driven enrichment models (classification, extraction, deduplication, PII detection)
- Familiar with metadata systems, data cataloging, or document AI workflows
- Background in data governance, sensitive data detection, or enterprise integrations (Collibra, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.)
- A track record of codifying repeatable deployment patterns into tools, SDKs, or frameworks
- Knowledge of security, compliance, and model evaluation best practices
- Capable of communicating clearly across engineering, product, and field teams, ensuring alignment from prototype to rollout
- Experienced in spotting risks early, course-correcting without friction, and model composure when delivery timelines are tight
- Someone who cares deeply about data quality, precision, and governance
- Willing to gain hands-on experience with modern frontend development
- Able to translate customer requirements into technical plans and deliver end-to-end
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across technical and business teams
- Calm, structured decision-making under tight timelines or ambiguity
What the job involves
- As a Deployed Engineer, you are the guiding force behind bringing Collibra's product and vision to customers and prospects. Engineers establish knowledgeable and trusted relationships from day one and serve as thoughtful technical advisors
- Own end-to-end technical delivery of Unstructured AI deployments — from first prototype to stable production across enterprise environments
- Build and scale full-stack systems that process and enrich large volumes of unstructured content (PDFs, contracts, reports, and other document types)
- Embed closely with customer and field teams to understand their metadata, governance, and security needs - guiding how Unstructured AI integrates into their broader Collibra stack
- Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early to ensure fast iteration cycles between product, research, and deployment teams
- Balance scope, speed, and quality - making clear trade-offs to keep pilots moving and convert them into production rollouts
- Codify repeatable patterns from customer projects into reusable connectors, enrichment modules, or playbooks that accelerate future deployments
- Feed field insights back to Product and Research, identifying opportunities to improve product experience
- Keep cross-functional teams aligned through clear communication, prioritization, and follow-through
- Within your first month, you will…
- Develop a deep understanding of how enterprises manage and transform unstructured data, including document pipelines, metadata systems, and retrieval architectures
- Partner closely with former YC founders and senior product leadership to see how we run a fast, startup-style execution motion inside a scaled organization. You will then ship your first end-to-end feature across the stack (backend, infrastructure, and UI), directly improving the product used by real customers
- Within your third month, you will…
- Deploy the product and your features in multiple Fortune 500 customer environments, often working inside the customer’s cloud and data perimeter. You will serve as the connective tissue between GTM, Product, Engineering, and Customer teams, translating customer feedback into product direction and execution plans
- Within your sixth month, you will…
- Become an expert in context engineering, designing how data, metadata, and domain knowledge flow into AI systems to maximize reliability, relevance, and decision quality
- Independently lead complex deployments, transforming unstructured and structured data to support AI-driven decision making at enterprise scale. You will use the Unstructured AI platform to build enterprise-grade AI products within customer environments, shaping how AI agents reason over real-world data
Our take
Collibra wants to help firms understand data governance. As companies gather ever more data, Collibra helps them understand what data they have, who has access to it and how to move it through a workflow of data analysis tools.
Historically, large corporations have not thought much about the data they collect and how to use it. In this day and age, however, data is super valuable so everyone wants to make the most of it, which has made businesses turn to products such as Collibra's. The company has secured many big-name clients including T-Mobile, Lloyds Banking, and Equifax.
The company's growth has been helped by increasing data privacy legislation like GDPR, which means companies have a legal obligation to be in control of the data they're collecting and giving their employees access to. In 2022, the company was named an Innovation Summit Honoree by the Bank of America’s annual Technology Innovation Summit. It has continued to add new features and integrations to maintain its offering's premium status, including a new data marketplace, which provides a shopping-like experience from which users can access a company’s internal datasets.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$250m
SERIES G
Apr 2020
$112.5m
SERIES F
Total funding: $605.9m
Company benefits
- {Be}Healthy: Healthcare for yourself and eligible dependents (inclusive of partners/domestic partners), mental health resources and care, tax-advantaged accounts, income protection, discount programs and more! Additionally, we encourage employees to treat their whole self by offering a bi-monthly calendar of events and programming dedicated to our {Be}well initiatives which focus on wellbeing areas including emotional, professional & social, financial, physical, allyship & belonging and giving back.
- {Be}With Family: We offer multiple types of leave so that you can spend time with loved ones, including parental leave, caregiver leave and our annual family day. These are all complementary to our culture in which we value output over hours.
- {Be}Kind: Collibra For Good, Unconscious Bias & Allyship training, Manager Racial Injustice training and Collibra-led fundraisers.
- {Be}Unplugged: Our paid time off programs include vacation, holidays, sick time and compassionate/bereavement leave. We also offer remote-friendly meditation sessions and cooking lessons – all of which you’re actively encouraged to use!
- {Be}Informed: Competitive compensation, bonus potential, private company equity, merit reviews and promotion cycles, company pension, discounts programs, access to LinkedIn Learning, employee referral program, employee rewards & recognition, development programs and more!
- {Be}Together: Community and belonging with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and personal interest groups, ERG-driven events, speaker series, and celebrations, a dedicated DEI council, the virtual Collibra cafe, trivia, bingo games and much more.
- When in-person (office) life resumes, we look forward to more snacks, catered lunches, team offsites and social events (think holiday gift exchange, fundraising events, happy hours, celebrations and more)!
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Felix Van De Maele
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously studied Computer Science and founded Collibra straight after university.
Pieter De Leenheer
(Co-Founder)CTO at 1upHealth. Started Collibra after completing a PhD in Computer Science. Also held the post of Professor of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam. Board Observer at Zenoptics.
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