Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer — Defense & Government Systems

Rylo Inc; Virginia (NE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K plan

Employee Stock Option Plan

Team outings

Job summary

Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with AI. We seek a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements, design and ship integrations with government data systems under real constraints.

You will work directly with customer technical staff, debug production issues in their environments, and mentor engineers while setting team standards. You’ll travel to customer sites, defend design decisions to skeptical engineers, and drive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems integration.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL.
• Experience deploying and debugging in constrained environments (government cloud/on-prem).
• Ability to defend design decisions to customers and teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and code reviews.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites (military installations in the U.S.).
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for 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

Systems integration

Mentoring engineers

Travel willingness

US citizen & clearance

Job description

Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with AI. We seek a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements, design and ship integrations with government data systems under real constraints.

You will work directly with customer technical staff, debug production issues in their environments, and mentor engineers while setting team standards. You’ll travel to customer sites, defend design decisions to skeptical engineers, and drive