Forward Deployed Engineer

The Role

You are the technical bridge between Terra's platform and our highest-value customers. You embed directly with their engineering and product teams to architect, integrate, and optimize their use of Terra's health data infrastructure.

This is not support. This is not consulting. You are an engineer who ships — the difference is that what you ship lives inside the customer's stack, powered by ours.

• Design integration architectures for complex health data use cases — determining which Terra endpoints, webhook configurations, and data models map to the customer's product requirements.
• Write production code in the customer's environment: building webhook consumers, data transformation layers, authentication flows, and retry logic against Terra's API.
• Debug across the full stack — from a Garmin watch failing to sync, to a webhook payload arriving with unexpected schema, to a customer's data pipeline dropping events.
• Ownthe technical relationship with 3–5 strategic accounts simultaneously, serving as their dedicated Terra expert from pre-sales scoping through production go-live and beyond.
• Translate field learnings into product — when you see three customers struggling with the same edge case in sleep data normalization, you don't just fix it for them; you work with our engineering team to fix it in the platform.
• Build reference implementations, SDKs, and sample apps that make Terra's API easier for every developer, not just your accounts.
• Scope and qualify technical requirements during the sales cycle — determining whether a prospect's use case fits Terra's data model, estimating API call volumes, and defining integration timelines.

What you'll work on

These are real problems our customers bring to us. As an FDE at Terra, you'd own the technical delivery:

• AI & Personalized Health
• AI & Personalized Health
• Insurance & Underwriting
• Clinical Research & Digital Health
• Fitness & Consumer Apps
• Upstream Data Supplier Onboarding

Must-Haves

• 3+ years building software, with direct experience designing and consuming REST APIs at scale.
• You've owned integrations end-to-end: auth flows (OAuth 2.0, API keys), webhook architectures, error handling, retry logic, idempotency.
• Strong in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript — you can prototype a webhook consumer, build an SDK wrapper, or debug a customer's data pipeline in the same afternoon.
• You've worked directly with customers or partners in a technical capacity — you know how to translate "our data looks wrong" into a root cause and a fix.
• You can context-switch between five different customer architectures in a week without losing depth on any of them.
• You communicate clearly and concisely with both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders — executives, product managers, compliance teams.

Strong Signals

• Experience with health, fitness, or biomedical data — you know what HRV is, why sleep staging is hard, and what makes wearable data noisy.
• Familiarity with health data standards and compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, FHIR, HL7.
• Background in developer tools, platform engineering, or API-first products.
• You've worked at or with companies in the wearables, digital health, or health AI space.
• Experience building data pipelines that handle real-time streaming and batch backfill at scale.
• You've contributed to developer documentation, sample code, or open-source SDKs.

Big Plus

• You are an athlete. You train, you compete, you push limits — or at the very least, you are obsessed with quantifying your own data. The discipline, ambition, and courage it takes to show up every day and get better is the same energy we run on. If you understand the data because you live it, you'll build a better product.

Terra is the infrastructure layer for health data access.

Health data is trapped across hundreds of siloed sources: wearables, sensors, health apps, medical devices, blood tests, team systems, and clinical platforms. Every source has its own authentication, permissions, schema, latency, edge cases, and reliability problems.

Terra abstracts all of that into one platform.

We give companies a single way to connect to health data, normalize it, stream it, analyze it, and build products on top of it. Today, Terra powers some of the top health companies in the world, as well as leading AI labs building the next generation of health intelligence.

We deliver more than 30 billion activities per year through infrastructure built for scale, security, and reliability.

The future of health is extreme personalization.

Health will move from care plans to goal setting: living to 120, winning the Olympics, becoming sharper, reversing disease, or performing at the top of any field.

AI will help people understand themselves, predict outcomes 10 years ahead, and choose what they want to become.

To do that, AI needs continuous, permissioned, real-world health data from every source.

Terra is building the infrastructure that makes this possible.

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