Role Overview:

As a Field Engineer, you are the technical engine of a customer-facing pod, partnering closely with an Account Executive and BDR to drive successful evaluations, onboarding, and expansion for Materialize customers. You own the technical relationship from discovery through production and beyond. This is a hybrid pre-sales and post-sales role. You’ll spend the majority of your time working directly with customers running discovery, demos, and POVs, and guiding customers into production, while also contributing to repeatable assets that help scale the Field Engineering function. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working directly with customers, thrives in technical ambiguity, and wants to help define how a category-defining infrastructure product is evaluated and adopted.

Our Field Engineers are based in our NYC office near Astor Place, with an expectation of at least 3 days per week in person.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discovery conversations and assess use case fit using Materialize’s qualification frameworks
• Design and deliver tailored demos and time-boxed POVs with clear success criteria
• Explain Materialize’s architecture and positioning relative to alternatives such as Flink, Snowflake, Databricks, ClickHouse, and custom-built systems
• Partner with Account Executives on deal strategy, technical qualification, and MEDPICC execution
• Maintain strong Salesforce hygiene, including technical risk flags and deal health updates
• Guide customers from closed-won to first production workloads
• Provide architectural guidance and support customers through early adoption
• Monitor usage patterns and surface expansion opportunities in partnership with Sales
• Participate in status reviews and QBRs for assigned accounts
• Build and improve repeatable assets such as demo environments, POV templates, and discovery playbooks
• Document best practices and contribute to internal enablement

What We’re Looking For : 

• 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Field Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Solutions Architecture
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures, including relational databases, event streaming, and microservices
• Proficiency with SQL and the ability to reason about query behavior and performance
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized environments
• Strong communication skills and comfort presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A structured, process-oriented mindset paired with the flexibility needed in a fast-growing startup
• Experience with real-time or streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark) is a plus
• Background in data infrastructure, developer tools, or technical consulting is a plus
• Scripting experience in Python, Go, or similar languages is a plus

Location: NYC (hybrid, minimum 3 days/week in HQ)
Base Salary: $145,00 - 160,000/year plus additional variable bonus and equity in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Staff-level, frontend-leaning full stack engineer to help define and scale Materialize’s Console, the primary UI through which customers understand, operate, and extract value from our database. This role is frontend-heavy (80–90%), with deep ownership of a large, complex React application. We’re looking for a technical leader who brings both breadth and deep frontend expertise to take on a complex, data-intensive Console architecture. You’ll lead the evolution of the Console UI, collaborating closely with backend and database engineers to ensure the frontend is built on well-designed APIs. 

Building the Console well requires strong frontend architecture skills, comfort working with large, data-intensive UIs, and the ability to translate database metrics and functionality into intuitive user experiences. In this role, you’ll help set architectural direction, influence the engineering roadmap, and raise the bar for frontend quality, performance, and maintainability.

This role is based in our NYC office (near Astor Place), with an expectation of at least 3 days per week in person.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the frontend architecture of the Materialize Console, a large, data-intensive React application
• Define clean abstractions, design systems, and patterns that enable the Console to scale as the product and team grow
• Build rich, high-performance user interfaces that surface complex system state, data flows, and operational insights clearly
• Partner closely with backend and database engineers to shape APIs, data models, and system boundaries that support frontend needs
• Become an expert on Materialize’s indexing and materialization in order to optimize SQL queries that power the console
• Drive improvements to frontend performance, testing strategy, CI/CD, and developer experience
• Serve as a technical leader for the Console: mentoring engineers, reviewing designs, and helping set long-term direction
• Collaborate with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into thoughtful, user-centered solutions

About You

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time owning and leading complex frontend systems, like React + Typescript applications
• Comfortable spending the majority of your time (80%+) in frontend code
• Strong frontend architecture instincts: component design, state management, performance, and maintainability
• Solid understanding of backend systems, APIs, and distributed systems — even if you’re not implementing most backend code day to day
• Confident working with SQL and data-intensive applications
• Able to reason clearly about architectural tradeoffs across frontend, APIs, and data layers
• Motivated by making highly technical systems understandable and accessible for end users
• Clear, concise communicator who can explain complex designs and decisions
• Thrives in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership, evolving requirements, and a bias toward action

SALARY RANGE: $205,000 - $250,000 + Equity

About the Role

Our database technology sits at the heart of the Materialize product—a product that transforms years of cutting-edge academic research into the missing element of today’s data architecture. As a member of our Database team, you will join a team of ~10 incredible engineers focused on solving ambitious systems problems in service of delivering this remarkable product to our users.

Recent examples of the work the Database team focuses on include: evergreen efforts to drive down freshness & responsiveness while continuing to deliver correct, consistent results; making each layer of the system more easily scalable; building the right primitives to integrate with the varied software development lifecycles of our users; unifying memory and disk through transparent use of swap; making our release process more predictable and reliable; writing clear documentation both internally and externally; improving observability and debugging tooling; and deleting lots of no-longer-needed code.

This role is based in our NYC office (by Astor Place), with an expectation of ≥3 days per week in person.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver improvements to the Database, with an eye on correctness, reliability, and performance.
• Own projects end-to-end, from early stage design to holding the pager.
• Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues, sometimes directly with customers.
• Continually improve system reliability, observability, and automation.
• Collaborate across your team, with Product, with Field Eng, and all other stakeholders to align on direction, carefully prioritize, and build the best product for our users.
• Share your work through mentorship, demos, blog posts, and any other relevant channels.

About You

• You have several years of experience developing software, and are passionate about distributed systems and/or databases. If you don’t use it already, you’re excited to learn Rust.
• You take pride in owning your work all the way through. Whether it’s early design work, close code review, holding the pager, writing the docs, or teaching the system to your newest team member, you take responsibility for your work at every step.
• You strive to make your work easy for others to understand. You write clear design docs and write clear, well-documented code. You love to take hard problems and make them simpler. And still simpler—until all of the complexity is boiled away.
• You love to solve hard problems in service of the customer and you approach those hard problems from all perspectives. Some of your greatest engineering moments come from the times you solved problems by not writing any code.
• You’re excited about working at the intersection of frontier academic research and the fast-paced realities of a venture-backed startup. You love the multidimensional problem of balancing engineering resilience, delivery speed, and product value.
• You want to build something great.

SALARY RANGE: $164,050 - $250,000 + Equity