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The Kafka-alternative streaming vendor stood up a full FDE org — 'the delivery arm,' reporting to a Head of FDE — to embed builders inside customer codebases on its new Agentic Data Plane. $194K–$229K base, 30–50% travel, and a JD that explicitly benchmarks itself against Palantir FDSE, OpenAI Deployed Engineer and Sierra: infra vendors now copy the labs' field model wholesale.