Senior FDE Data Engineer

📋 Description

• Forward-deployed data engineering role with DoD mission hero teams
• Deploy, harden, integrate, and operate the data stack in mission environments
• Mostly remote work; travel to sites as needed (10-25%)
• Own full breadth of a data platform: storage, ingestion, streaming, governance, and Kubernetes
• Mentor junior Data Engineer FDEs and raise the team's ceiling

🎯 Requirements

• End-to-end data platform ownership: storage, ingestion, streaming, governance
• Lakehouse tech: Iceberg/Delta/Hudi; Postgres with pgvector; S3/Ceph
• Streaming and integration: Kafka (Strimzi), Flink, Debezium
• Pipelines and orchestration: Airflow, Dagster, Argo Workflows
• Governance and catalogs: ABAC/RBAC, OIDC/OAuth, lineage
• SQL data modeling: fluent SQL; scalable schemas
• Security: DoD clearance TS/SCI preferred; ability to obtain TS/SCI

🎁 Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage (100% premiums paid)
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401k + Company stock options
• Home Office Budget