Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage cybersecurity team building a platform to secure and control enterprise AI. As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work closely with enterprise security and IT teams while shaping product capabilities through hands-on customer deployments and engineering.

What You'll Do

• 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 using Python, Go, or TypeScript.

• Own a broad range of practical engineering challenges across an early-stage product.

• Turn customer feedback into product improvements and deliver them promptly.

• Adapt your focus to the most important engineering and customer needs each week.

What We're Looking For

• Two to five years of experience as a software engineer or forward deployed engineer, including shipping production software in a high-bar engineering environment.

• Customer-facing engineering experience, such as forward deployed, solutions, sales, or founding engineering work, or technical account management experience developed from forward deployed engineering.

• Experience with at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript, as well as architecture, databases, and scaling.

• Exposure to cybersecurity, identity, or enterprise IT.

• Experience across a range of employers, including startups or other technology companies beyond large technology firms.

• Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in California, United States.