Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential enterprise software organization seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to join their growing Professional Services team. This is a highly strategic, customer-facing engineering role where you'll work directly with enterprise customers to accelerate platform adoption through hands-on implementation, automation, migration tooling, and solution engineering.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, platform engineering, and customer delivery. You'll work alongside customer engineering teams solving complex technical challenges, building reusable automation, and delivering production-grade solutions in real-world enterprise environments.

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on 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 platform-based 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 platforms to modern solutions
• 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 Experience:

• 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

Preferred Attributes:

• Prior experience working 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 recruitment team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and match it with our client's requirements. If there's a strong fit, we'll submit your profile to the client for consideration and guide you through their interview process. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure proper representation.

Pay

This position is based in the United States and offers competitive compensation aligned with the seniority and scope of the role. Specific compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to equal employment opportunity. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.