Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Description

About MotherDuck

Don’t let the quirky name fool you! We’re on a mission to radically transform the data analyst user experience. We think we can empower and delight analysts using a novel cloud architecture built on top of DuckDB, an open source foundation with a vibrant community. We’re rapidly driving towards general availability and need your help to create many “aha moments” for our users. Our team is a diverse mix of passionate, collaborative and empathetic data industry veterans from Google, Amazon, Meta, Snowflake, SingleStore, Databricks, and the like.

Core Responsibilities

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at MotherDuck, you are tasked with making MotherDuck users successful. You strive to deeply understand customer needs, you collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve the product, you propose creative bespoke solutions, you work with customers on implementation, and you synthesize learnings.

You are a seasoned engineer at heart, able to execute on engineering initiatives independently. You are an exceptional communicator and problem solver. Importantly, you are a creative generalist comfortable in ambiguity, and you enjoy working closely and iteratively with customers, engineers, product managers, and designers.

Requirements

Solid understanding and direct experience working with analytics databases, BI tools, and data processing tools

Expert knowledge of SQL

Expert understanding of various data management architectures, such as OLAP, OLTP, data lake, and HTAP

Experience working with connectors and drivers for databases, such as JDBC, ODBC, and SQLAlchemy

Experience working in a highly technical outbound engineering role

Experience building technical customer solutions

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Confidence in working with customers to architect and troubleshoot solutions

Comfortable with a high level of ambiguity and able to execute independently

Nice to haves, but definitely not deal breakers

Experience with Python and dbt

Experience with building outbound engineering or technical sales organizations

Experience building data tool connectors

Knowledge of data file format internals Parquet, etc.

Practical experience building data pipelines end-to-end

What we provide

Competitive compensation and stock options

For US-based employees:

100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees

80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents

For Non-US based employees:

You probably have a functioning health system and social safety net so healthcare is not a major factor in employment. If that is not the case let us know and we’ll work something out.

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401k plan

Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations

Geographically distributed team with hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, & Amsterdam

Please Apply

Does this role sound appealing to you, but you’re missing some of the requirements or don’t quite think you’re qualified? Please apply anyway. Research has shown that underrepresented groups in technology often shy away from roles which aren’t a 100% match. We aim to build a diverse team and will strongly consider applicants who bring many of the requirements plus have other experiences which round out their qualifications.

MotherDuck is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. MotherDuck is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Compensation Range: $140K - $275K