Forward Deployed Engineer, India

The role

You will deliver complex data migrations, integrations, and automations for customers across APAC. You will own the technical execution layer including implementation, testing, production rollout, and building reusable migration tools.

What you will do

• Own the technical execution layer for migrations and integrations.
• Translate requirements into technical designs, implementation plans, and test strategies.
• Build migration utilities, backend services, data pipelines, and automations.
• Investigate source-system behavior, data quality, and constraints.
• Design and validate permissions, ownership, and inheritance mappings.
• Design migrations for reliability, scale, security, and observability.
• Execute migrations through approved environments and tooling.
• Build validation and reconciliation frameworks.
• Debug failures across application code, infrastructure, and data.
• Convert repeated delivery patterns into reusable components and playbooks.

Required qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, data engineering, integration engineering, implementation engineering, technical consulting, solutions engineering, or a similar technical r
• Strong hands-on Python development experience.
• Working experience with Node.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and data transformation.
• Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, authentication, webhooks, and system integrations.
• Experience owning a production migration, integration, or technical implementation.
• Experience taking a technical problem from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and production operation.
• Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, release practices, and production deployment.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Evidence of working on production systems.
• Clear written and verbal English communication.
• High agency and ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, job orchestration, or infrastructure automation.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with message queues, event-driven systems, distributed-system patterns, retries, concurrency, and rate limits.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, or other observability tools.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS applications, professional services, or large-scale customer implementations.
• Experience migrating large volumes of content or structured data between enterprise platforms.
• Experience with AI or LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, or agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with MCP, tool calling, Notion Workers, Custom Agents, or similar extensibility platforms.
• Experience working with distributed global or APAC teams.

About the company

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