Foxglove

Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed

Foxglove
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Hong Kong, Hong KongSenior

Responsibilities

  • Work with Korean and English-speaking customer teams to understand goals, constraints, and technical needs.
  • Design and build tested end-to-end solutions using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL, and/or Rust.
  • Define scopes, timelines, and success measures from proof of concept through production.
  • Code alongside customer engineers and deploy software in cloud, on-premise, and offline environments.
  • Install and update software at sites without internet access and write operational runbooks.
  • Train customer teams and create documentation in Korean and English.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, product, design, and engineering teams.
  • Document successful approaches, contribute to internal libraries, and support the Forward Deployed Engineering team serving Korean customers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Fluency in spoken and written Korean and English.
  • Experience leading technical meetings with customer engineers and translating requests into scoped work.
  • Track record of rapid prototyping and step-by-step delivery with external stakeholders.
  • Backend experience in Node.js, Python, or Rust and frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
  • Experience with Docker and deploying and supporting software on networks without internet access.
  • Ability to determine what to build and make it usable without a designer.
  • Ability to work independently with a team located 16 to 17 hours behind.
  • Willingness to work onsite with customers in Korea when needed and travel up to 50%.
  • Robotics, industrial automation, or previously deployed-role experience is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive equity grant at a Series B company.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents for U.S. full-time employees.
  • 401(k) matching up to 4% for U.S. full-time employees.
  • Four weeks of vacation, holidays, and winter break.
  • All-expenses-paid company offsites one to two times per year.
  • $300 monthly budget for commuter benefits or a personal workspace, depending on role and location.

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About Foxglove

51-200 employees

Foxglove builds observability, visualization, and data infrastructure for robotics and autonomous systems teams, enabling them to ingest, store, query, replay, and analyze multimodal sensor data from live robots and production fleets. It sells a software platform and tools used across domains such as autonomous vehicles and private defense. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company focuses on multimodal data visualization and management for robotics development.

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