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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