Frontline Defense Software Engineer

Tagup; Sanger (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Active security clearance

Job summary

Tagup, a defense technology company founded at MIT, is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate our platform with government data and systems on-site with customers. You will build workflows, support deployments, and act as the technical counterpart to clients in high-stakes environments.

You’ll travel to military installations across the U.S., own end-to-end workstreams, and write production-grade code in Python and/or TypeScript while collaborating with product teams to turn field

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with SQL and data-heavy work: ETL, integration, and wrangling imperfect real-world data.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and comfort working directly with customers.
• Bias toward ownership: handed a requirements document, you return a working system.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites (military installations across the U.S.).
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Integrate our platform with government data and systems under real constraints, and onboard the imperfect data programs actually run on.
• Configure the product against program requirements and support releases, including in government cloud environments.
• Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers.
• Triage and resolve customer-reported issues in their environments rather than passing them along.
• Own a component or program workstream end to end, returning working systems from a requirements document rather than closed tickets.
• Spend time on-site with customers, become their technical counterpart, and bring what you learn back to the product team.
• Write, test, and review code to a standard the rest of the team can build on.

Skills

2+ years experience

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Data wrangling

Customer communication

Ownership

Travel to sites

US citizenship

Security clearance

Job description

Tagup, a defense technology company founded at MIT, is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate our platform with government data and systems on-site with customers. You will build workflows, support deployments, and act as the technical counterpart to clients in high-stakes environments.

You’ll travel to military installations across the U.S., own end-to-end workstreams, and write production-grade code in Python and/or TypeScript while collaborating with product teams to turn field