Forward Deployed Engineer

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential client in the API infrastructure and cloud-native technology space. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their growing Professional Services organization in a highly strategic, customer-facing role.

This position requires US Citizenship to support Government and Public Sector customers.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly alongside enterprise customer engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges, accelerate platform migrations, build reusable automation, and deliver production-grade solutions in real-world environments. You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, platform engineering, and customer delivery.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building, coding, solving ambiguous problems, and working directly with customers on mission-critical initiatives involving APIs, service connectivity, modernization, and cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and implement API gateway and connectivity solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments
• Lead hands-on implementation efforts for API gateways, service mesh, developer portals, and related connectivity technologies
• Build automation frameworks, migration tooling, custom integrations, and reusable accelerators to simplify customer adoption and modernization efforts
• Drive migration initiatives from legacy API management platforms to modern infrastructure
• Work closely with customer developers, platform teams, architects, security teams, and executives to solve complex technical and operational challenges
• Develop production-grade code, scripts, plugins, CI/CD integrations, Kubernetes automation, and infrastructure tooling as part of customer engagements
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap priorities based on real-world customer feedback and implementation learnings
• Create reusable best practices, technical assets, reference architectures, documentation, and design patterns to scale delivery excellence
• Support strategic customer initiatives involving platform modernization and cloud-native transformation

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years in customer-facing engineering, platform engineering, professional services, site reliability engineering, or software engineering roles
• Strong hands-on software engineering and implementation experience
• Experience with API gateways, API management, integrations, or distributed systems platforms
• Strong Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure expertise
• Experience building automation frameworks, deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or migration tooling
• Strong proficiency in Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices
• Experience with major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Programming experience in languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Lua
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or GitOps frameworks
• US Citizenship required for this position

Preferred Attributes:

• Prior experience in API Management, Open Source, Middleware, SaaS, or Infrastructure software companies
• Strong builder mindset with the ability to solve complex technical problems with minimal supervision
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving enterprise environments
• Passion for working directly with customers and delivering measurable business outcomes
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences
• Highly organized with strong prioritization and execution skills
• Team-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and ensure alignment with the role requirements. Once we've confirmed you're a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will be managed through our team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.