Telnyx

Forward Deployed Engineer, UAE

Telnyx
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Dubai, United Arab EmiratesMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand communications workflows, AI use cases, and integration challenges.
  • Design, build, deploy, and support custom implementations using Telnyx APIs, AI voice assistants, WebRTC, and communications services.
  • Deploy and operate LiteLLM and self-hosted or hosted LLM solutions, including model routing, fallbacks, usage governance, and observability.
  • Build production observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and runbooks.
  • Lead technical discovery, architecture, POCs, pilots, production launches, customer handoffs, and troubleshooting.
  • Adapt models and build prompt, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation pipelines for Arabic and English use cases.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap using field insights from the UAE and GCC.
  • Own customer outcomes until solutions are live and stable, including resolving complex integration issues with customer teams.

Requirements

  • CS degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping production software used by real users.
  • Proficiency in Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and Go.
  • Understanding of production LLM concerns including rate limits, retries, streaming, token accounting, cost attribution, and concurrency failure modes.
  • Experience deploying containerized services on Kubernetes with secrets management, configuration, and upgrades.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Graylog, or ELK.
  • High-concurrency experience with Kafka, message queues, or event streams, including partitioning, consumer groups, and backpressure.
  • Experience building APIs with OpenAPI, REST or GraphQL, authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and idempotency.
  • Exposure to SIP, WebRTC, or real-time voice and messaging systems.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, strong independent judgment, and the ability to lead technical discussions and troubleshoot root causes.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Arabic.
  • Based in Dubai or willing to relocate, with willingness to work on customer sites and travel across the UAE and GCC.
  • Bonus qualifications include AI voice, speech-to-text/text-to-speech, LLM gateway, model-serving, SQL, ETL, CI/CD, telecom or CPaaS, sovereign cloud, UAE/GCC regulatory, and security experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Dubai with travel across the UAE and broader GCC.
  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the UAE or eligible for sponsorship.

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About Telnyx

201-500 employees

Telnyx builds a communications platform and AI infrastructure for developers and enterprises, offering SIP trunking, voice and messaging APIs, WhatsApp Business, eSIM/IoT connectivity, and low-latency inference on a private global IP network. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, operates worldwide and holds a Saudi VVSP license with regional anchorsites for data locality. Revenue comes from usage-based APIs and enterprise connectivity services.

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