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Associate Forward Deployed Engineer

Johannesburg, Gauteng🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $83,200–$83,200🗓 2026-09-27

Core

Junior engineer supporting data ingestion and customer data workflows by preparing data, building automation scripts, and troubleshooting transfer issues.

Role type

Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (aFDE)

Builds

Data ingestion pipelines, customer data transfer workflows, and automation scripts

Domain

Data engineering / Customer data operations

Required skills

Python scripting, API integration, command-line tools, Git, troubleshooting, data validation, written communication

Preferred skills

SQL, data pipelines, cloud storage, Linux environments, JSON/CSV/Parquet formats, AI coding tools

Responsibilities

Prepare and transfer customer data, build and improve data ingestion scripts and automations, troubleshoot technical issues across APIs and workflows, monitor data transfer accuracy, communicate progress with customers and internal teams, document recurring issues and improve tooling

Seniority

Junior, hands-on IC

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