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Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Aug 07, 2026
This job expires in: 22 days

Job Summary

Embedding with customers to deploy Smallstep's device identity platform, the full-time Forward Deployed Engineer will diagnose technical failures, act as a technical escalation point, and ship production Golang code while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Diagnosing and resolving technical failures that block deployments
  • Acting as the technical escalation point for Technical Account Managers and Customer Success Engineers
  • Shipping production Golang code to address root causes uncovered during deployment debugging
Required qualifications
  • Experience debugging distributed, multi-service cloud architectures in live customer environments
  • Production experience with certificate-based authentication, VPNs, enterprise Wi-Fi/EAP-TLS, RADIUS, SSH, and OAuth
  • Proficiency in developing and shipping production Golang code
  • Experience troubleshooting TLS/mTLS at the protocol level
  • Prior experience in a customer-facing technical role, such as a forward deployed engineer or solutions engineer

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