Remote Datastore Engineer - Partner Data & API

Beaconbiosignals; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Biosignals is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Datastore team. You will work directly with external partners to understand their data needs, guide integrations with our APIs and datasets, and develop integrated solutions on Beacon’s data platform.

You will write production code against a PostgreSQL-backed GraphQL API, align with product managers and scientists, and help troubleshoot client data issues at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, data engineering, or data platform engineering, including hands-on application development.
• 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role, delivering solutions directly to external partners or clients.
• Strong proficiency in SQL with production PostgreSQL experience; you write and tune queries by hand, and you’re comfortable reasoning about schema design, indexes, and query plans.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining operational data models.
• Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders to solve data-related problems, including requirements gathering, solution design, and delivery.
• You work across the stack, querying and modeling data, and writing the application and integration code that ships to partners.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with external partners to understand their data needs, analytical workflows, and technical constraints, and translate these into concrete solutions and application features built on Beacon’s Datastore.
• Lead technical conversations with partner engineers and data teams, supporting API integrations, successful adoption of data access patterns and practices, and downstream analytics.
• Design, build, and ship solutions for customers, sometimes on the Beacon platform and sometimes on the customer’s platform, to kickstart and expedite integration and provide examples that showcase and validate Beacon’s data.
• Collaborate with the Datastore team to develop internal tools, services, and queries that improve observability, troubleshooting, and resolution of client data issues.
• Leverage feedback from partners and internal stakeholders to improve documentation, APIs, data models, and operational processes.
• Debug production data issues end to end - from a customer’s report, through logs, pipelines, and the database - to a root cause and a fix.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Data engineering

Customer-facing technical role

SQL proficiency

Python

Julia

API design & integration

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

TypeScript

Python

Julia

Snowflake

Job description

Beacon Biosignals is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Datastore team. You will work directly with external partners to understand their data needs, guide integrations with our APIs and datasets, and develop integrated solutions on Beacon’s data platform.

You will write production code against a PostgreSQL-backed GraphQL API, align with product managers and scientists, and help troubleshoot client data issues at scale.