Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Description

About the Role

Join an early-stage cybersecurity team building tools to secure and control enterprise AI. You will combine hands-on software development with close customer collaboration, helping security and IT teams deploy the product while shaping its development.

Responsibilities

• Run customer deployments and pilots, troubleshoot integrations in customer environments, and lead technical sessions with security and IT teams.
• Build product features and integrations end to end across the stack using Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Own a broad range of hands-on engineering challenges as the product and team grow.
• Turn customer feedback into product improvements and deliver them quickly.
• Adapt to changing priorities and take on the work most important to the team.

Requirements

• Two to five years of experience as a forward deployed engineer or software engineer, with a track record of shipping production software.
• Customer-facing engineering experience, such as forward deployed, solutions, or sales engineering, technical account management with an engineering background, or customer-focused founding engineering.
• Experience with at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript, along with knowledge of architecture, databases, and scaling.
• Background in a fast-growing technology company, startup, or similarly rigorous engineering environment.
• Exposure to cybersecurity, identity, or enterprise IT is valuable.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Conditions

Base salary: $187,000 to $225,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

On-site in California, United States.