Hands-On Enterprise Data Platform Engineer

NexusOne; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NexusOne, headquartered in Atlanta, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers post‑sale and turn platform commitments into production outcomes. You will work inside customer environments, translate goals into designs, write production-grade code, and drive NexusOne integrations and AI-enabled workflows.

You will partner with engineering, Solutions Architects, and customer teams to ensure security, governance, and reliability while delivering scalable

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software, platform, data, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience in a customer-facing post-sales, professional services, solutions delivery, consulting engineering, resident engineering, or forward‑deployed role.
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals, with production proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
• Experience with modern data infrastructure and distributed systems, such as Spark, Trino/Presto, Iceberg, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, data lakes, or cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers from post-sale discovery through production rollout, stabilization, and knowledge transfer.
• Translate business outcomes and ambiguous customer requirements into clear technical designs, milestones, and working software.
• Design, build, test, and deploy customer-specific integrations, data pipelines, platform extensions, migration utilities, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Integrate NexusOne with existing enterprise systems across identity, security, governance, data catalog, storage, compute, orchestration, observability, and CI/CD.
• Support migrations and modernization across on-premises, private-cloud, public-cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Establish production-readiness criteria covering performance, reliability, security, disaster recovery, monitoring, and operational ownership.

Skills

Strong programming fundamentals

Customer-facing delivery experience

Enterprise communication

Travel willingness

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Spark

Airflow

dbt

Job description

NexusOne, headquartered in Atlanta, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers post‑sale and turn platform commitments into production outcomes. You will work inside customer environments, translate goals into designs, write production-grade code, and drive NexusOne integrations and AI-enabled workflows.

You will partner with engineering, Solutions Architects, and customer teams to ensure security, governance, and reliability while delivering scalable