Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer for Defense Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Option Plan

Health insurance

401K plan

Team outings

Job summary

Tagup is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in the United States to lead customer engagements and deliver government data integrations under real-world constraints. You will design, build, and ship complex solutions while working closely with defense customers and field teams.

You will mentor engineers, review code, and balance speed with robustness. Willingness to travel to client sites, including military installations, is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems-integration work.
• Expertise in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration, and system design under constraint.
• Experience deploying and debugging in government cloud, on-prem, or other constrained environments.
• Ability to defend a design decision to skeptical customers and to your 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.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans and deliver multi-week engagements.
• Build custom workflows that drive adoption and engagement with key customers.
• Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud.
• Document design decisions and review code across the team.
• Make speed-versus-robustness trade-offs under program constraints.
• Mentor engineers and bring learnings back to the product team.

Skills

5+ years exp

Python

TypeScript

SQL

System design

Mentoring engineers

Travel willingness

Security clearance

Tools

Government cloud

On-prem envs

Job description

Tagup is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in the United States to lead customer engagements and deliver government data integrations under real-world constraints. You will design, build, and ship complex solutions while working closely with defense customers and field teams.

You will mentor engineers, review code, and balance speed with robustness. Willingness to travel to client sites, including military installations, is expected.