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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Eon'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Eon

- **Company:** Eon
- **Location:** United States / San Fransisco
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio/jobs/4897200101

## Job description

## About Eon

Eon is building the agentic data layer: the modeled, reconciled, governed data foundation that AI agents read from. Enterprises today spend 12 to 18 months wiring pipelines and hand-building semantic models before an agent can answer its first question. Eon builds that foundation automatically as data lands: captured directly from the cloud infrastructure layer, linked across structured and unstructured sources, classified and modeled on ingest, and kept fresh with no pipelines to maintain. Customers run production AI workloads on Eon at petabyte scale today, making Eon one of the fastest-growing cloud infrastructure startups in the market. Founded by the team that built CloudEndure (acquired by AWS) and backed by top-tier investors.

## About the role

Eon's FDEs are the front edge of the company. You embed with some of the world's largest enterprises, take a real business problem, and ship working software on their data, often within days of first meeting them. Your demos close deals. Your prototypes become product. Your solutions run in production at Fortune 500 scale.

This is a builder's role with real ownership: you pick up a problem, you own the outcome, and the whole company sees the result.

## What you'll do

- Own the technical relationship with customers end to end, from first whiteboard session to production deployment.
- Turn platform primitives into customer-ready solutions in days: live demos, POCs, and production systems on real customer data.
- Design and build data and AI solutions over structured and unstructured data: semantic layers, analytics, GenAI applications, and agent-facing data products.
- Present your work to everyone from staff engineers to the C-suite, and hold the room with both.
- Feed what you learn in the field directly into Product and Engineering. FDEs are the strongest signal in our roadmap.

## What we're looking for

- An entrepreneurial mindset: you find the problem, take ownership of the outcome, and don't wait for permission or perfect requirements. Founding or building something from scratch is a strong plus.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience across data engineering, software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering.
- Deep data engineering background: you've built and operated data pipelines and ingestion systems at scale, and you know modern data architectures (lakehouse, open table formats, Iceberg) well enough to know where they break.
- Experience with semantic layers, data modeling, data cataloging, or knowledge and context graphs: making data meaningful and trustworthy for machines, not just queryable.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI: LLM applications, agents, RAG, text-to-SQL, and AI-powered workflows over enterprise data.

You build fast with limited guidance, and you're proud of what you ship. You communicate like an owner: clear, direct, and credible with executive and C-level stakeholders. Prior FDE experience is a plus, not a requirement.

## About Eon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eon provides a cloud-native data infrastructure platform that turns backups, archives, and cloud resources into an AI-ready, analytics-accessible data lake.
- **Entity Type**: Private ($497M total funding; Series D)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (also operates in Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; Mexico City, Mexico; and Italy)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Ofir Ehrlich (CEO, Co-founder), Gonen Stein (President, Co-founder), Ron Kimchi (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Data Infrastructure & Analytics; Cloud Backup; AI Data Readiness
- **Target customers**: Forture 500s and global enterprises with complex cloud infrastructure — B2B, Enterprise focus
- **Mission**: “Make the world’s cloud data faster, safer, and smarter.” Eon is on a mission to turn passive backup storage into active, queryable infrastructure that data engineers and AI teams can use instantly.

## Products & Services
- **Eon Data Protection**: Automated, agentless cloud backup and protection with continuous mapping, classification, and incremental discovery of cloud resources. Reduces storage costs by up to 50% via global deduplication. Includes Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) and log archiving for instant recovery down to a single database row or file. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/)
- **Eon Data Lake Infrastructure**: Converts backups, archives, and cloud resources into a managed, zero-ETL data lake using open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Parquet). Instantly queryable via Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery. Built-in AI enables natural-language search and AI agent connections via MCP and A2A connectors. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/)
- **Unified Storage Format**: Open, analytics-ready data platform that turns cloud data into a zero-ETL data lake for any granularity.
- **Role-Based Access Control & Comprehensive Audit Reporting**: For enterprise compliance and security.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $497M across 5 rounds (Seed, Series B, C, D)
    - Seed Round (Jan 2024): $20M led by Sequoia Capital
    - Series B (Oct 2024): $77M led by Greenoaks Capital
    - Series C (Nov 2024): $70M led by BOND Capital
    - Series D (Dec 2025): $300M led by Elad Gil
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Notable Investors**: Elad Gil, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, BOND Capital
- **Key Metric**: Revenue is not publicly available (private company); total funding is $497M
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Headcount grew 111.8% YoY (+114 employees) to 131 people as of recent data [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eon-io)
    - Monthly headcount growth of +9.6%
    - Founded by the team behind CloudEndure (acquired by AWS), who built AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Application Migration Service — two native AWS services that support the world’s largest enterprises
    - Over 18 employees formerly from Amazon Web Services (AWS); talent also drawn from Google, Microsoft, Unity, Wix, Cohesity, and Israeli Military Intelligence

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-ever Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) platform** — a new category that Eon practically invented
- **Agentless and read-only IAM role design** — zero attack surface, no hidden fees, no software to deploy
- **Cloud-native global deduplication** — reduces storage costs by up to 50% and improves performance via parallelized reads
- **Zero-ETL data lake** — eliminates the need for brittle ETL pipelines to make backup data useful for AI and analytics; data is automatically converted to open table formats
- **Founding team’s deep AWS expertise** — founded CloudEndure, built two AWS native services; deep credibility with enterprise cloud infrastructure

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Eon platform as the “backup autopilot” for modern cloud infrastructure
- Converting backup data into AI-ready assets via built-in AI agents, natural-language search, and open table formats
- Scaling go-to-market in the U.S. (Active job postings for Sales Directors, Account Executives in Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and New York)
- Building out channels and partner ecosystems (Director of Channels - East/West)
- International expansion: operations already in 5 countries; hiring in Tel Aviv and New York

## Why Work Here
- **Radical Ownership & Flat Structure**: “We’re flat by design. Direct collaboration with the founders and real authority to make decisions that move the company forward.” Skill and impact matter more than hierarchy or titles. [eon.io/careers](https://www.eon.io/careers)
- **High-Growth Environment**: Headcount grew 111% in the last year; the company has raised $497M and is scaling fast
- **Culture of Speed and Experimentation**: “Speed isn’t just how we build—it’s who we are.” “We experiment fearlessly, build fast, and celebrate the wins together.”
- **Excellent Above All**: Holds itself to the highest standards; hires top talent that Fortune 500s trust
- **“Enjoy the Ride”**: Fun is taken seriously — “Happy people build better products.” Support, rewards, and celebration are part of the culture
- **Remote / Hybrid**: Roles advertised include hybrid (Tel Aviv, New York) and remote options (Technical Customer Success for US, Solutions Architect in Tel Aviv) [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio)
- **Engineering Culture**: Founded by CloudEndure/AWS veterans; strong engineering DNA with 52 technical employees; recruits heavily from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and elite tech teams

## Sources
1. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/) — Product information, platform description, feature highlights
2. [eon.io/careers](https://www.eon.io/careers) — Culture, values, career page
3. [eon.io/about](https://www.eon.io/about) — Founders, story, mission, and news
4. [linkedin.com/company/eon-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eon-io) — Employee count, headcount growth, talent sources, demographics, funding rounds
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio) — Active job postings and locations

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