Forward Deployed Engineer

• You work directly with external partners and customers to understand their data needs, analytical workflows, and technical constraints, and translate those into concrete solutions built on Beacon’s Datastore
• You lead technical conversations with partner engineers and data teams, supporting API integrations, successful adoption of data access patterns and practices, and downstream analytics
• You design and implement solutions for customers, sometimes on the Beacon platform and sometimes on the customer’s platform, to kickstart and expedite integration and provide examples that showcase and validate Beacon’s data
• You collaborate with the rest of the Datastore team to develop internal tools, queries, and workflows that improve observability, troubleshooting, and resolution of client data issues
• You leverage feedback from partners and internal stakeholders to improve documentation, APIs, data models, and operational processes
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and balance pragmatism with rigor, delivering solutions quickly while maintaining high standards for data integrity, correctness, and maintainability

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend software engineering roles with significant exposure to data platforms
• 3+ years in a customer-facing role, developing and managing customer relationships
• Strong proficiency in SQL, with hands-on experience designing and maintaining analytical or operational data models
• Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders to solve data-related problems, including requirements gathering, solution design, and delivery
• Comfort operating across the stack—from querying and modeling data to writing application or integration code as needed
• Experience in a data-oriented programming language such as Python, Julia, or R
• Familiarity with APIs and data integration patterns (GraphQL or REST, batch exports and ELT/ETL, event sourcing, and the like)
• Experience with modern analytics and BI tools such as Snowflake, Superset, Looker, or similar platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A collaborative, customer-oriented mindset — you enjoy partnering across teams and organizations to solve real problems

The salary range for this role is $170,000 – $190,000. Salary ranges are determined using current market compensation data for this role and adjusted based on experience, skills, and location.The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes equity, PTO and other benefits. At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact. #LI-Remote