Forward Deployed Data Engineer

About the Company

America is under sustained cyber attack. Our adversaries infiltrate our networks, steal our IP, and degrade the digital infrastructure that modern life runs on. They’ve learned—correctly—that those attacks rarely produce consequences.

Twenty was founded to change that, by making our adversaries think twice before they attack us. Our vision is American and allied primacy in cyberspace—a future where they cannot contest us, deterrence is assured, and the free world remains secure.

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies (www.twenty.io) industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty has raised $168M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Caffeinated Capital, Friends & Family Capital, Point72 Ventures, General Catalyst, and In-Q-Tel.

   

Mission | On Site | Full Time | Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

    

Role Summary

You'll be on the ground at a government customer site in Northern Virginia, building and operating the data integrations that feed Twenty's mission-critical platform in a restricted, air-gapped environment. Twenty builds software for cyber operations, and the applications this role feeds are used by operators and analysts working against hard national security problems. This is a hands-on engineering role with real production ownership: you'll write software extensions that retrieve, process, and integrate new data sources into our applications, work with the customer's deployment team to get those extensions running on the high side, monitor the health of the data flowing through the system, and debug production issues where they happen. You'll report directly to the VP of Engineering. You'll be part of a small forward deployed team, working closely with other on-site engineers, the Arlington-based product engineering and DevSecOps teams, and the customer's own technical staff. The data integration tooling you'll build on is young and under active development. You'll be among its first production users, and what you learn in the field will directly shape how it evolves.

 

The office-based team can't see this system. You are the engineering presence where the software actually runs. That means the interesting problems land on you first, and the judgment calls about what's wrong, what's urgent, and what Arlington needs to know are yours to make.

 

If you're an experienced data engineer who wants your work in the hands of operators the same week you build it, and you'd rather own a production system end to end than ship features into a backlog, this role is for you.