Solutions Developer (FDE)

Zipher is building the Autonomous Execution Layer for cloud data and AI, a new category we are defining: $50M raised , live in Fortune 500 environments , and millions of dollars in enterprise contracts signed. We are hiring a Solution Engineer (FDE), Forward Deployed Engineer , to join a deliberately talent-dense team. As our Solution Engineer (FDE) , you will work embedded with the engineering teams of the world’s largest data and AI organizations, write the code that connects Zipher to their live workloads , and own every deployment until it runs, and delivers, in production. Our Solution Engineers work the way Forward Deployed Engineers do: as software engineers first. Whether your title today is Solutions Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, or tech lead, you grew up as a developer, and here your days are spent in code. What You’ll Do Deploy Zipher into the customer’s production : build the integrations, connectors, and deployment code that plug the engine into Databricks, Spark, Kubernetes, and AWS Write production code in the field : debug live pipelines, ship fixes and extensions, and turn every one-off into a reusable building block Own each deployment end to end , through to the measured impact on cost, performance, and reliability Be the engineer enterprise teams reach for when it matters: on-call and responsive across global time zones Bring the field back into the product , with core engineering and the founders What You’ll Bring 5+ years writing production code as a software engineer : backend, full stack, or data A career that grew from development toward the customer or into leadership: today a Solutions Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Solutions Architect, or Customer Engineer , or a tech lead, team lead, or architect Strong production coding in Python or another backend language, and hands-on depth in cloud and data platforms : AWS, Databricks, Spark, Kubernetes, or adjacent Solutions built directly with B2B or B2E customers , deployed into their production systems in real time BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline Availability for on-call and global-hours responsiveness when an enterprise workload needs you A high-agency, customer-obsessed engineering mindset : as comfortable in a customer’s codebase as in your own Nice to Have A developer seat in an elite IDF technology unit (8200, Mamram, Ofek, Matzpen) or another high-performance engineering environment Databricks, Apache Spark, Snowflake, Airflow, dbt , or cloud-native data platforms Background in FinOps, platform engineering, SRE, or data engineering What We Offer A product that is already winning : in production inside Fortune 500 environments, with millions of dollars in enterprise contracts signed An engineering seat in the field : as an FDE, you write the code and own the deployment architecture, and what you build shapes what we ship next Engineers worth learning from : a deliberately talent-dense team and direct work with the founders Room to grow and to lead : your ownership widens as the platform does Top-of-market compensation and a meaningful equity package The teams running the world’s largest data and AI workloads are about to stop tuning them by hand. Come be the engineer who puts it in production - Hit Apply. Show more Show less