Forward Deployed Engineer | $120K-$150K + Hybrid + Equity | AI-Based Outage Intelligence Company

The Forward Deployed Engineer will work across Engineering, Customer Success, and customer-facing initiatives to solve technical problems, build automation, improve operational workflows, and accelerate customer success.

You may spend one part of your day helping a customer integrate with the platform, another part improving internal tooling, and another part deploying improvements directly into production.

The ideal candidate takes pride in solving problems without being asked.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production-ready solutions inside the core platform.

• Develop internal tools and automation that improve operations.

• Support customer API integrations and onboarding efforts.

• Partner with Customer Success to solve technical customer challenges.

• Work directly with customers during implementation and technical discovery calls.

• Improve onboarding processes.

• Identify recurring problems and proactively build scalable solutions.

• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership on product improvements.

• Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, backend systems, and customer environments.

• 3-5+ years of back-end software engineering experience.

• Strong Python development experience is preferred.

• Experience working within production systems and live customer environments.

• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar codebases and contribute independently.

• Startup experience.

• Experience building APIs, backend services, automation, or internal tooling.

• Comfortable working directly with customers and non-technical stakeholders.

• Highly proactive with strong ownership mentality.

Nice to Have

• Asynchronous Python.

• RabbitMQ or messaging systems.

• Distributed systems.

• Large-scale data pipelines.

• Infrastructure or SRE experience.

Interview Process

• SaaS Talent Interview

• Coding Challenge

• Technical Interview with Engineering Team

• Final Onsite Interview with Leadership Team

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