Forward Deployed Engineer

Trebellar, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

401(k) match

Flexible time off

Job summary

Trebellar, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customers and tackle data ingestion and analysis for complex CRE datasets.

You will be the bridge between customer tech teams and Trebellar's core engineers, scoping, building, and delivering features with a Forward Deployed Consultant.

This role requires strong communication, data processing expertise, and comfort with cloud, Docker, k8s, and TS stacks in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience, 5+ in data ingestion and manipulation (ETL, import/export API design).
• Ability to understand and analyze complex data sets and debug complex scenarios.
• Experience with high-volume data ingestion and processing, real-time and batch.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills as a customer-facing engineer.
• Self-driven, startup mindset with collaboration across teams.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and familiarity with common JS/TS stacks.
• Backend/API development skills and solid data processing architecture understanding.
• Familiarity with Cloud/Docker/Kubernetes and related DevOps technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own data ingestion and analysis for customers, adapting to complex needs.
• You will serve as the main contact between customer tech teams and Trebellar engineers.
• You will work with Forward Deployed Consultants and Trebellar product teams to scope, build, implement and deliver features.

Skills

ETL

Data ingestion

API design

TypeScript

Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Strong communications

Tools

AWS

GCP

REST APIs

Job description

About Trebellar

Trebellar is the AI platform for corporate real estate. Enterprise CRE teams use Trebellar to turn fragmented lease, space, and occupancy data into a single decision-making layer — replacing spreadsheets and guesswork with an AI-native system of record. We're backed by Blossom Capital, with participation from Jack Altman and Semil Shah (Haystack), and we're a small, fast-moving team building category-defining infrastructure for one of the largest, least-modernized categories of enterprise spend.

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll embed directly with our customers and work side by side with their data and engineering teams. Given the size and complexity of our typical customer profile, this is a role that requires great communication skills and technical versatility. Each customer has unique needs that we have not seen before.

What you'll do

• Own data ingestion and analysis for our customers, adapting to their complex needs.

• You will serve as a main point of contact and bridge between the customer technical teams and the Trebellar core engineering teams.

• You will work closely with a Forward Deployed Consultant who brings subject-matter expertise, and Trebellar's product team to scope, build, implement and deliver features to our customers.

What we're looking for

We seek versatile candidates with expertise in data processing able to contribute across the stack.

• 10+ years experience, 5+ of which must demonstrate data ingestion and manipulation (ETL, import/export API design and implementation, ....)

• You must be able to understand and analyse complex data sets, as well as debug complex scenarios.

• You have experience in high volume data ingestion and data processing, ideally both real time and batch.

• You have excellent communication and organization skills, since you will be a key point of contact with the customers.

• You are self driven. Your work will be part of a team, but you are joining a Start-up where everybody has a high degree of sufficiency once the main goals are agreed with the team.

• Proficiency in typescript and familiarity with the most common javascript/typescript stacks.

• Backend/API development skills - A solid foundation and understanding on interacting with backend services.

• Good understanding of common systems architecture for data processing.

• Familiarity with Cloud/Docker/k8s/... and related DevOps technologies

What we offer

• A small, high-context team where your ownership is visible and your impact compounds quickly.

• Competitive compensation plus employee stock options, giving you a genuine ownership stake in an early-stage business, so you share in what you help build.

• Health benefits, 401(k) match and flexible time off..