Blockstream

Forward Deployed Engineer

Blockstream
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4 hours ago
Menlo Park, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery of Blockstream enterprise software from project kickoff through production deployment and post-launch support.
  • Build AI-assisted prototypes, integrations, tooling, services, configurations, and reusable deployment assets.
  • Support technical pre-sales, RFP/RFI responses, security questionnaires, SOW scoping, estimation, and scope-change management.
  • Configure, deploy, optimize, test, and provide UAT and post-go-live support for customer implementations.
  • Integrate Blockstream products with core banking and capital-markets systems using integration interfaces and data pipeline technologies.
  • Deploy solutions in on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped banking environments while producing security and audit evidence.
  • Troubleshoot technical, configuration, and integration challenges and collaborate with Engineering to resolve product issues.
  • Facilitate technical workshops, architecture discussions, implementation planning, and administrator and end-user enablement sessions.
  • Translate implementation learnings and customer feedback into product improvements, deployment frameworks, playbooks, and engineering roadmap input.

Requirements

  • 4–8 years of experience in Software Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Technical Consulting, Implementation Engineering, or Enterprise Software Delivery.
  • Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust to independently build and ship integrations, tooling, and services.
  • Experience implementing and deploying enterprise software in complex customer environments and working directly with enterprise customers.
  • Strong understanding of protocol intermediation, enterprise integration patterns, cloud technologies, security fundamentals, and modern software architectures.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, customer-facing communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and collaborate across Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Sales, and Consulting.
  • Ability to work independently while managing multiple customer engagements.
  • Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations across Europe and excellent English skills.
  • Preferred: experience with financial institutions, Bitcoin, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization, fintech, APIs, modern integration frameworks, cloud platforms, containerized deployments, infrastructure automation, Layer-2 technologies, or digital asset infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Regular travel to customer locations across Europe is required.
  • The role is embedded directly with customer engineering teams and may involve onsite work in controlled banking environments.

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
Blockstream

About Blockstream

51-200 employees

Building the rails for Bitcoin finance. Enterprise, consumer, asset management. The future of finance runs on ₿.