Nexla Nexla
Forward Deployed Engineer, Data Integration(USA)
San Mateo, California, United States · Junior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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The bottom of this range ($80,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $137,093. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Nexla, briefly Nexla is the data connectivity layer for enterprise AI.
- Over 1,000 bidirectional connectors give agents real-time access to data and actions over MCP.
- Nexla processes over a trillion records a month for enterprises including DoorDash, LiveRamp, LinkedIn, and J&J.
Responsibilities
- What we are building now. MCP Studio and Express, our two newest bets.
- What you build, scoped to roughly X hours.]
- Building something real with AI tooling in the loop, the way the job is actually done.
- What we are building now.
Nice to have
- Technical delivery at strategic customer sites, end to end.
- Production pipelines, connectors, and workflows across their warehouses, SaaS apps, streaming systems, and internal APIs.
- The integrations nobody else can make work.
- What the product learns from the field.
- The commercial edge of the work.
- 0 to 4 years of software engineering, with production systems you built and shipped yourself.
- Former technical founders, and engineers with consulting backgrounds, fit well here.
- Real knowledge of enterprise data infrastructure.
Compensation
- Compensation is determined by overall skills, experience, and location.
Company info
- Honorable Mention in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools, and top-rated by customers on Gartner Peer Insights four years running.
- Founded 2016, remote-first, headquartered in San Mateo.
- Who uses us, and why. nexla.com/customers
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