Forward Deployed Data Engineer

San Francisco, Remote. Posted 9 months ago

The role

Forward Deployed Data Engineers bridge the gap between customer systems and the Vori grocery platform. You will configure the system for retailer needs, create data pipelines, and wrangle data from various formats like CSV, EDI, PDFs, and scanned paper.

What you will do

Understand the VoriOS system end to end and interdependencies
Understand customer needs to define and configure system specifications
Configure and maintain data mappings and reconciliation
Work closely with Operations, Product, and Engineering teams to improve workflows and systems

Required qualifications

5+ years in FD/Solutions Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role
Strong backend/data engineering fundamentals
Ability to interact directly with customer IT teams
Familiarity with unstructured data, ETL processes and ML/OCR pipelines
Comfort in troubleshooting messy, high-pressure customer environments
Capable of managing extraction, ingestion, and pipeline tuning with minimal guidance
SQL proficiency
Regex proficiency
Scripting proficiency
Willingness to learn new technologies

About the company

Vori is a mission-driven team building tech that helps local businesses thrive. The company is backed by investors and advisors from Stripe, Uber, Palantir, and Toast.