PagerDuty

Forward Deployed Engineer (SDEV)

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3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$145k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy and drive adoption of the SRE Agent across 2–4 strategic customer accounts, including onsite engagement and production integration.
  • Build reusable agent tools, connectors, and skills and contribute code through the product team’s repositories, reviews, and evaluation gates.
  • Run customer pilots, gather evaluation data, resolve technical blockers, and build production fixes into the core product.
  • Integrate the SRE Agent with Terraform or Pulumi, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms while guiding progressive delivery.
  • Define 3–6 month technical roadmaps, provide architectural guidance, and communicate customer feedback to product and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software across team boundaries.
  • Production experience with LLM and agent systems, including agent development, MCP or equivalent tool-use frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and guardrails.
  • Ability to lead technical design sessions with customer engineers and present business cases to customer leadership.
  • Experience with Terraform or Pulumi at scale, GitOps such as ArgoCD, CI/CD pipeline design, and progressive delivery patterns including canary, blue/green, and soak periods.
  • Demonstrated record of shipping adopted software and exercising judgment about which customer requests should be generalized.
  • Preferred qualifications include incident-management and observability knowledge, customer-facing technical consulting or solutions architecture experience, founder or founding-engineer experience, policy-as-code or permissioning experience, PagerDuty or comparable platform experience, and open-source contributions to AI-agent or MCP ecosystems.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexible work arrangements, subject to eligible-location restrictions, and 25–50% travel during active customer engagements.
  • Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, company equity, ESPP, retirement or pension plan, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and wellness days.
  • Paid parental leave, paid volunteer time off of 20 hours per year, company-wide hack weeks, and mental wellness programs.

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About PagerDuty

5,001-10,000 employees

PagerDuty builds a subscription SaaS platform for incident response, on‑call management, AIOps, and workflow automation used by DevOps, IT, SRE, security, and support teams. Its cloud service centralizes alerts, orchestrates real-time response, and integrates with monitoring and ticketing tools. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, the public company (NYSE: PD) counts 60 of the Fortune 100 among its customers, including Netflix and Cisco.

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