Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – Deployment Services

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Istari

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11 - 50 employees

🚀 Aerospace

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Aerospace • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Istari is at the forefront of digital engineering innovation, providing digital twin technology that revolutionizes industries from aerospace to agriculture. By making digital twins simple and secure, Istari unlocks advanced models and simulations, facilitating more efficient and sustainable product development. The company's innovative approach extends the internet into a future engineering metaverse, offering software-like agility for physical systems and empowering collaborative and secure workflows. Recognized for their groundbreaking work, Istari has secured a $19M contract to develop the world’s first digitally certified airplane, marking a significant milestone in digital certification and collaboration with partners like Lockheed Martin.

📋 Description

• Write and maintain data migration scripts for customer identity transitions, multi-tenancy data migrations, and schema changes • Manage database operations across customer environments, including PostgreSQL administration, Dgraph query optimization, schema migrations, data integrity verification, and performance tuning • Configure and validate backend platform services, including Identity Service, Keycloak, AI Chat, and service integrations • Build and maintain Python automation tooling for repeatable deployment and configuration tasks • Integrate platform APIs for customer-specific workflows, including authentication flows, data exchange endpoints, and service configuration • Configure identity provider integrations, including Keycloak, SAML, OIDC, and SSO with PingFederate, Okta, and Azure AD • Troubleshoot application-layer issues involving service configuration, database performance, API connectivity, and authentication failures • Support agent and module deployment alongside Solutions Engineers, including configuration validation, backend connectivity, and module integration testing • Coordinate with customer engineering teams on service configuration requirements, data migration schedules, and validation • Maintain migration runbooks, service configuration documentation, and customer environment notes • Deliver platform services to defense, aerospace, and commercial customers in regulated, security-sensitive environments

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or a technical customer-facing delivery role • Strong Python development skills, including production scripts, automation tools, and data processing pipelines • Hands-on experience with relational databases in production, preferably PostgreSQL, including queries, schema migrations, performance tuning, and backup/restore • Working knowledge of REST APIs, including building integrations, debugging connectivity, and reading API documentation • Experience with Kubernetes at an operational level, including deploying and troubleshooting workloads, reading logs, and understanding pod lifecycle • Familiarity with identity and authentication systems, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and LDAP, at a configuration level • Experience working directly with external customers in a technical capacity • Strong troubleshooting skills across application logs, database queries, and service configurations • Clear written and verbal communication skills for customer-facing interactions • U.S. Citizen • Preferred: experience with graph databases such as Dgraph or Neo4j • Preferred: experience with Keycloak or other open-source identity providers • Preferred: experience with AWS services such as S3, IAM, KMS, and RDS, or equivalent Azure experience • Preferred: familiarity with Helm charts and Kubernetes application deployment • Preferred: experience writing production data migration tooling with rollback capabilities • Preferred: experience with TypeScript/Node.js in addition to Python • Preferred: familiarity with compliance or security frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, or CMMC • Preferred: experience supporting defense, aerospace, or government customers • Preferred: experience with CloudWatch, Grafana, or Prometheus • Preferred: industry certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate or CompTIA Security+ • Preferred: active Secret or Top Secret security clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular syncs • Access to internal engineering resources • Clear path to influence the product being deployed • Technical career trajectory within Customer Success • Opportunity to work on complex customer environments and immediately used solutions