Lead Forward Deployed Engineering
Gen Digital8 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy and delivery standards for demand-side partner integrations across Forward Deployed Engineering and Solutions Engineering.
- Develop standard operating procedures and best practices with cross-functional leaders.
- Personally lead the most complex, ambiguous, and new-vertical integrations end-to-end.
- Convert bespoke integration work into reusable modules, templates, runbooks, and other repeatable assets.
- Architect and govern AI-native engineering practices, including code-generation pipelines, mapping automation, test-scaffolding agents, and human review gates.
- Mentor FDEs through design and code reviews to improve engineering quality.
- Drive Product and Engineering feedback loops that reduce bespoke work and expand team capacity.
- Work directly with partner engineering teams in technical working sessions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience, including time in a senior or staff integration, platform, or forward-deployed engineering role.
- Production-quality programming experience in Scala and/or Python.
- Comfort with Node.js and TypeScript for SDKs and tooling.
- Deep fluency with REST/JSON APIs, including authentication, idempotency, schema evolution, versioning, monitoring, and incident response.
- Experience creating reusable architecture, tooling, or playbooks that scale team output without proportional headcount growth.
- Fluency with AI-native development workflows and tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, with judgment about when to use deterministic approaches.
- People leadership or strong informal team leadership experience is preferred.
- Ability to run technical working sessions with partner engineering teams.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Gen Digital
Gen Digital is a public consumer cyber safety company that sells subscription software and services for cybersecurity, online privacy, and identity protection under brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender. Formed in 2022 by the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, it is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and serves more than 150 countries with a user base approaching 500 million. Revenue comes primarily from direct-to-consumer subscriptions and partnerships.