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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Nov 10, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Driving public sector initiatives, the full-time Senior Forward Deployed Engineer will architect resilient transport and synchronization protocols for low-bandwidth environments while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Architect resilient transport and sync layers for store-and-forward data protocols in DDIL conditions
  • Implement ad-hoc networking and local peer discovery over various physical links
  • Apply field-ready systems engineering principles to ensure mission-critical applications function offline
Required qualifications
  • 5-7+ years of software engineering experience in robust systems software or distributed networking services
  • Strong proficiency in Rust or other systems-level languages (Go, C, or C++)
  • Demonstrated experience with store-and-forward architectures and delay-tolerant networking
  • Practical experience solving synchronization challenges under intermittent or low-throughput network constraints

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