Forward Deployed Engineer
DepthFirst17 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise deployments from architecture and planning through installation, troubleshooting, upgrades, and operational handoff.
- Work with customer security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to establish paths to production.
- Solve deployment challenges involving cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, and application configuration.
- Write production code, build integrations, and deliver product capabilities to unblock customers.
- Build tooling and automation for onboarding, deployment validation, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
- Convert recurring customer needs into reusable platform improvements with infrastructure, product, and security engineers.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs, dependencies, and progress across customer and internal teams.
- Travel to customer sites as needed.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
- Hands-on experience deploying, debugging, and operating production applications on cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of networking and cloud security fundamentals, including private connectivity, DNS, TLS, IAM, and access controls.
- Ability to investigate infrastructure and application problems, identify root causes, and implement fixes.
- Proficiency in Go or Python, with experience shipping production code and automation.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability.
- Strong communication, customer collaboration, ownership, and judgment in ambiguous deployment situations.
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise technical engagements, AWS, EKS, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, multiple cloud providers, strict enterprise networking and security environments, varied customer architectures, AI platforms, or security products.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with meaningful equity.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- Office lunch and dinner when working from the San Francisco office.
- Direct impact on customer success and product direction.
- Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and security.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About DepthFirst
DepthFirst builds an AI-driven security platform that analyzes source code, infrastructure, and business logic to detect and help remediate software vulnerabilities, including potential zero-days. It sells enterprise security software and services to engineering and security teams at organizations with large codebases and open-source dependencies. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on general security intelligence delivered by AI agents that continuously scan customer and popular open-source projects.