Twenty

Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - TS/SCI (CI Poly)

Fort Meade, MD. Posted 9 days ago

The role

You will serve as a generalist engineering presence at a government customer site in a restricted, air-gapped environment. You will build customer-specific features, integrate data sources, and manage the deployment and reliability of Twenty's mission-critical platform.

What you will do

  • Design and build features, extensions, and integrations for customer mission and workflows
  • Work with customer users to scope and deliver requirements
  • Write testable, debuggable, and maintainable code for restricted environments
  • Build software extensions to retrieve, parse, transform, and load new data sources
  • Extend and field-test AI-backed capabilities
  • Execute software deployments and updates in coordination with Arlington engineering
  • Monitor platform health and data flows using the LGTM stack
  • Diagnose and resolve production issues on-site
  • Drive root cause analysis and post-incident reviews
  • Participate in on-call rotation using PagerDuty

Required qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Substantial time owning services or applications running in production
  • Strong generalist programming ability in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript
  • Experience building and shipping backend services or full-stack features end to end
  • Experience debugging production systems
  • Working operational fluency in Linux command line and containerized environments (Docker, Docker Compose)
  • Observability tooling skill
  • Experience in a forward deployed, field engineering, or embedded customer-facing engineering role
  • Experience deploying and operating software in air-gapped, classified, or restricted environments
  • Ability to work on-site full-time at a government facility in Northern Virginia
  • Travel to Arlington, VA (typically 4 days per month)
  • Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines or data integrations
  • Solid SQL and schema design skills
  • Experience building LLM-backed application features or operating AI/ML systems in production
  • Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or similar)
  • Experience with streaming and message queue technologies
  • Background in a military, intelligence, or defense contracting environment

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plan options
  • Life / AD&D, disability coverage options
  • Paid parental leave (12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents)
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options
  • HSA/FSA options
  • Dependent care FSA

Before you apply

  • Role is limited to U.S. citizens
  • Requires an active security clearance

About the company

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty aims for American and allied primacy in cyberspace.