Senior Field-Deploy Engineer, Defense Logistics

Tagup; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Option Plan

Health insurance

Company outings

Job summary

Tagup, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own customer engagements, design and implement integrations with government data systems, and guide teams through complex, constrained environments. You will shape solutions, review code, and mentor engineers while traveling to customer sites across the United States.

Join a rapidly growing team delivering innovative logistics AI with a focus on national security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems-integration work.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, and SQL.
• Experience deploying and debugging in constrained environments such as government cloud or air-gapped networks.
• Ability to defend design decisions to skeptical customers and to your own team.
• Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing code across a team.
• 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

• Lead customer engagements end to end: integration with government data and systems, designed and built under real constraints.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans, and deliver multi-week engagements without close supervision.
• Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers.
• Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud.
• Document design decisions that hold up under scrutiny, and review code across the team.
• Make sound speed-versus-robustness trade-offs under program constraints.
• Mentor engineers and bring what you learn in the field back to the product team.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

System design

Customer-facing

Mentoring

Job description

Tagup, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own customer engagements, design and implement integrations with government data systems, and guide teams through complex, constrained environments. You will shape solutions, review code, and mentor engineers while traveling to customer sites across the United States.

Join a rapidly growing team delivering innovative logistics AI with a focus on national security.