Forward Deployed Engineer
This role involves hands-on customer onboarding and data migration support for Rubie’s platform, bridging technical and business needs to ensure seamless customer adoption. Core tasks include designing data migration playbooks, troubleshooting live migrations, and feeding insights back to the engineering team.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- New York City
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- At least 1 year of software development experience or equivalent technical literacy (e.g., scripting, debugging APIs, data manipulation)
- Experience with onboarding/implementation roles (e.g., onboarding engineer, solutions architect, forward-deployed engineer)
- Comfortable with AI-assisted scripting, wrangling APIs, and handling unstructured data
- Customer-obsessed communicator who can translate between business, ops, and engineering teams
Nice to have
- Prior software engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling and migration playbooks
Full description
Why Rubie
At Rubie, we help high‑growth companies migrate their customer data autonomously so they can onboard customers in hours instead of weeks. ERPs, CRMs, and other systems‑of‑record are painful to set up because ingesting, mapping, and cleaning legacy data is still mostly manual. Rubie unblocks customer‑success teams by combining agentic infrastructure, AI‑assisted transformation, and a relentless bias‑to‑action.
We’re moving a lot of data and backed by top‑tier investors (Afore Capital, Crossbeam Ventures, Earl Grey Ventures, Comma Capital). Big technical challenges and real customer pain - and we need people who love both.
We are growing fast, with extremely strong retention, and we need to scale the post-sales team to ensure our customers have fast and friction-less onboarding, deploy Rubie beyond the initial use cases and expand their usage; while remaining raving fans!
The Role
You are Rubie’s face/tip of the spear for our customers. During early roll‑outs you sit inside their problem space and make sure they win. Once we sign up new customers, they'll be handed over to you to oversee their onboarding and integration. You will need to:
- Manage stakeholders and timelines to ensure quick adoption.
- Provide technical feedback to the engineering team on potential issues or bottlenecks
- Design and build custom data migration playbooks (coding not required, but understanding of data models and comfort with data manipulation is a must)
- Anticipate any new needs, expansion or challenges
Day‑to‑day you will:
- Guarantee 100% retention: You own the metric. Whatever it takes.
- Dive into datasets: make sense of them, manipulate them, map them. You need to be as comfortable with unstructured data as you are with VLOOKUPs on massive datasets
- Design and execute playbooks: Use our platform to create data migration playbooks and use every tool at your disposal to unblock weird edge cases.
- Operate in the field: Pair with product and engineering; jump on calls; debug live; be willing to hop on a plane when needed; communicate clearly under pressure.
- Feed the roadmap: Translate frontline chaos into crisp product requirements and implementation guides for the core engineering team.
- Tackle “impossible” projects: When a customer’s need looks hopeless, you volunteer first, and then deliver.
- Be the primary point of contact for high-stakes customers: from non-technical ops teams living in spreadsheets to deeply technical stakeholders, often under real time pressure (live migrations, sales deadlines, post-acquisition cleanups), where data accuracy and clear communication are non-negotiable.