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Forward Deployed Engineer

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24 days ago

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to diagnose problems, scope fixes, and ship solutions end to end.
  • Own system design for customer deployments while balancing correctness, scale, and speed.
  • Explain plans and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with Sales, CX, Product, and core Engineering to incorporate customer learnings into the roadmap.
  • Help define how the Forward Deployed function operates as it grows.

Requirements

  • Experience building and shipping full-stack products end to end using modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript and production-ready backend development.
  • Ability to prototype quickly, learn from real usage, and iterate based on customer feedback.
  • Exceptional communication skills, including running customer calls, translating vague requests into concrete scope, and documenting agreements clearly.
  • Strong product sense and judgment about which customer requests should become product capabilities versus remain bespoke.
  • Ability to own outcomes independently in an early-stage, ambiguous environment without waiting for detailed requirements.
  • Ability to remain calm during delays, bugs, and scope discussions while pushing back appropriately.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the San Francisco office.
  • Early starts to collaborate closely with teammates in Europe, with quiet afternoons for focused work.

Tech Stack

AWSCloudflareDatadogGitHub ActionsGraphQLReactTerraformTypeScript

Categories

Forward Deployed
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