Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

This role runs live client projects on the Karya platform. The work is the execution layer above the core product: project workflows, data jobs, checks, reports, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Run and monitor data jobs on remote Linux servers, and recover failed jobs from logs and process state.
• Configure project workflows, including the handoff from automated processing to human tasks, and track what is in progress, held, or ready to deliver.
• Write PostgreSQL and ClickHouse queries for throughput, completion, quality, pay, and delivery status.
• Apply completion and quality rules to access, pay, and delivery decisions, after a sample check.
• Write Python, SQL, or Bash scripts for those checks and decisions, and keep them in the repository.
• Package datasets to client specifications, move them through cloud object storage, and record what has shipped.
• Read the TypeScript / Node.js codebase to follow tasks, assignments, payments, and file storage.
• Reply to Operations and client teams with the finding, the change made, and what is still open.
• Report repeated manual work to platform engineering, with an example.

Requirements

• PostgreSQL, including joins, aggregates, and JSON fields.
• Scripts in Python, Bash, or TypeScript, checked into git.
• Ability to read a TypeScript codebase and a relational schema.
• Linux for running jobs: SSH, logs, long-running processes, and disk.
• Ability to write technical updates that give non-technical teammates a clear picture of the situation.
• Queries or scripts already run against real project or production data.

Good to have

• Cloud object storage (Google Cloud Storage, S3, or Azure Blob).
• Experience with collected datasets such as speech, text, or images.
• ClickHouse, Metabase, or a similar reporting tool.