Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Summary

As a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in a full-time remote position, the candidate will serve as a hands-on technical authority, responsible for the architecture and end-to-end implementation of mission-critical systems, including writing core production code and ensuring operational resilience for AI-driven applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive system architecture by collaborating with enterprise engineers to translate high-scale operational requirements into concrete designs
• Write, optimize, and review high-performance production code across distributed data backends and execution frameworks
• Own technical outcomes by validating systems in client environments and troubleshooting performance issues under extreme workloads

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in high-performance distributed systems or large-scale data infrastructure
• Proven expertise in Go, C/C++, Java, or Rust, with a strong understanding of systems programming and concurrent systems
• Experience designing systems with strict SLA targets, including low-latency and high-throughput requirements
• Hands-on experience with applied AI and agentic infrastructure, including context retrieval platforms and deterministic workflow engines
• Demonstrated ability to lead client-facing technical discussions and make high-judgment technical trade-offs