Senior Field-Deployment Engineer for Defense Tech

Tagup; Idaho; On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k) program

Team outings

Job summary

Tagup is seeking an experienced Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements that integrate our platform with government data systems under real constraints. You’ll own the plan, design decisions, build the solution, and ship it, working directly with customer technical staff and government cloud environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, review code, and set high standards for field delivery, while balancing speed and robustness across multi‑week engagements across the U.S.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems‑integration work.
• Depth in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration against messy sources, and system design under constraint.
• Experience deploying and debugging in environments you don’t control: government cloud, on‑prem, or otherwise constrained.
• Judgment on trade‑offs, and the ability to defend a design decision to a skeptical customer engineer 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 and mentor engineers

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Python/TypeScript/SQL

systems integration

mentoring engineers

travel to customer sites

Tools

government cloud

on-prem

Job description

Tagup is seeking an experienced Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements that integrate our platform with government data systems under real constraints. You’ll own the plan, design decisions, build the solution, and ship it, working directly with customer technical staff and government cloud environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, review code, and set high standards for field delivery, while balancing speed and robustness across multi‑week engagements across the U.S.