Forward Deployment Engineer

Position Overview 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. This role requires a delivery mindset, strong technical depth, and the ability to lead both strategic conversations and hands-on execution. Role and Responsibilities • 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. Your Experience • 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. 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. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv. Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people. To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees relate