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Forward-Deployed Engineer – Data Engineering Expert
Location
Slovenia
Posted
15 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Forward-Deployed Engineer – Data Engineering Expert
Viaduct
• Operate as the data engineering expert on the Internal Efficiencies team, collaborating closely with other engineers, data scientists, solution / product experts, and customer success leaders to deliver against user / customer deliverables • Contribute to defining data engineering deliverables from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outputs • Leverage agentic AI tools on a daily basis to deliver code and improve your productivity • Develop and maintain strong relationships with all Internal Efficiencies team members as well as engineering subject-matter experts across Viaduct • Work with customer success and solution / product team members to scope user/customer needs and translate them into actionable analytics solutions • Deliver against deliverables with quality and speed, contributing new features to solutions and products, refactoring code, improving tests, automating manual processes, and owning other engineering tasks • Stay updated with the latest trends and related technologies and apply them to improve our software
Job Requirements
- Experience owning a project from design to implementation
- 3+ years working as a full-time data engineer
- Proficiency in Python/Scala/Java/C++ and SQL
- Comfortable exploring and answering questions with data and SQL
- Experience leveraging agentic AI tools to deliver code (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
- Track record of experience with many of the following: (a) Spark or equivalent technologies, (b) workflow schedulers (Airflow, Prefect, Argo, etc), (c) distributed file-systems (HDFS, S3, etc), (d) tools in the open-source data ecosystem (Apache, CNCF, etc), (e) incremental or real-time processing (Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Kafka Stream, Spark Streaming, etc)
- Familiarity with automating data engineering tasks and processes using command-line or GUI tools (e.g., Linux OS, Gumloop, Airbyte, ADF, etc)
- Business English fluency and aptitude for working in an international working environment across geographies and time zones
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a related field (e.g., Computer Science)
Benefits
- Compensation: Competitive base salary, short-term incentive (annual bonus) and long-term incentive (long-term upside)
- Travel: 0-20% (with significant occasional international travel component)
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Work site: Flexible (Ljubljana office and/or work from home)
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