Field Engineer – Israel (SWAT Team)

Location: Israel (Hybrid – HQ-based, Frequent travel globally)

Reports to: SWAT Team leader

Team: SWAT – Centralized Technical Execution Team

About the role

Speedata is rewriting the rules of data infrastructure with the world’s first Analytics

Processing Unit (APU) — a revolutionary processor delivering massive acceleration for big

data workloads. As a Field Engineer based in Israel, you will join our elite SWAT team to

lead technical execution for global customer engagements.

You’ll design and execute high-impact POCs, benchmark performance, and collaborate

deeply with regional field engineers, R&D, and Product to shape how Speedata delivers

value to data-intensive organizations worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Opportunities

Analyze Spark-based workloads (SQL, ETL) and optimize them for Speedata APU.
Build reusable infrastructure for tuning, logging, and benchmarking.
Create tuning guides, cheatsheets, and enablement tools for global field teams.
Support product feedback loop from customer use cases into roadmap discussions.
Travel globally to support customer success, workshops, and technical escalations.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in big data performance, systems engineering, or solution architecture.
Hands-on expertise with Apache Spark internals and workload tuning.
Familiarity with Spark acceleration stacks (RAPIDS, Gluten, Velox).
Strong understanding of Parquet, ORC, Delta Lake, and Iceberg formats.
Proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD for deployment and operations.
Experience with distributed file systems (HDFS, S3).
Comfort working in customer-facing environments with executive presence.
Fluent in English
Team-first mindset with a hunger for technical depth and customer success.

Why Speedata

Speedata is building a revolutionary platform to accelerate the world’s most complex big

data workloads. Join a team that’s reshaping analytics infrastructure with a new category of

processor and defining the future of Spark performance.