Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage cybersecurity team building tools to secure and manage enterprise AI. As a founding forward deployed engineer, you will work directly with enterprise security and IT teams while helping shape the product through hands-on engineering.

What You'll Do

• Lead customer deployments and pilots, troubleshoot integrations in customer environments, and run 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 customer base grow.

• Translate customer feedback into product improvements and deliver them quickly.

• Adapt to shifting priorities and take on the work most important to the team.

What We're Looking For

• Two to five years of experience as a software engineer or forward deployed engineer, including shipping production software.

• Customer-facing engineering experience, such as forward deployed, solutions, or sales engineering, founding engineering with direct customer work, or technical account management following forward deployed engineering experience.

• Experience with Python, Go, or TypeScript, plus knowledge of software architecture, databases, and scaling production systems.

• Experience at a high-bar startup, fast-growing technology company, or similarly rigorous engineering environment, with a background not limited exclusively to large technology companies.

• Exposure to cybersecurity, identity, or enterprise IT.

• 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 the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.