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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

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3 days ago
USA (city not specified)Senior

Responsibilities

  • Own hands-on technical execution and complex deliverables for assigned strategic enterprise customers.
  • Develop custom policies, plugins, connectors, integrations, deployment templates, and reusable technical assets.
  • Build deployment automation using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Troubleshoot API, application, networking, performance, and infrastructure issues across customer environments.
  • Review customer code, configurations, and pull requests for production readiness.
  • Validate upgrades and perform regression testing against customer environments.
  • Partner with customer developers, architects, Implementation Managers, TAMs, Support, Product, and Engineering teams.
  • Accelerate customer deployments, production adoption, platform expansion, retention, and customer value.
  • Provide product feedback and use AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering, testing, and troubleshooting efficiency.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering, platform engineering, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
  • Strong Java development skills and experience writing production-quality code.
  • Deep understanding of REST APIs, API gateways, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD.
  • Experience building custom integrations, plugins, and deployment automation.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across application, networking, and infrastructure layers.
  • Experience with Git-based development workflows, code reviews, and automated testing.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience working directly with enterprise customers and technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to independently own complex technical deliverables from requirements through production.
  • Preferred experience with Gravitee, Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Kafka, event-driven architectures, gRPC, protocol transformations, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, enterprise security architectures, AI gateways, LLMs, Model Context Protocol, agentic AI, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, front-end development, enterprise migrations, regulated environments, and AI coding assistants.

Benefits

  • Competitive medical coverage.
  • Pension or 401k program options.
  • Stock options.
  • 25 days of holiday plus in-country national holidays.
  • Three mental health days and a wellness allowance.
  • Birthday off.
  • Professional development budget.
  • Hybrid work culture with regional hubs.
  • Quarterly team events and an annual offsite.
  • Global company culture with growth opportunities.

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