Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, May 21, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Responsible for production operations and incident response, the full-time Senior Forward Deployed Engineer will engage with customers to resolve complex technical challenges while ensuring system reliability and operational excellence in a remote setting.

Key responsibilities
  • Act as a senior technical escalation point during production incidents and lead real-time incident triage and recovery efforts
  • Own post-launch reliability and operational quality of core systems, ensuring fixes from incidents are integrated into the core product
  • Engage directly with strategic customers to support complex deployments and translate customer learnings into product improvements
Required qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or production operations
  • Deep hands-on experience operating production systems in AWS and troubleshooting Databricks
  • Proficiency in Python and experience building production services or tooling
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, incident management, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Proven ability to manage problems end-to-end, delivering fixes with minimal documentation

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