Forward Deployed Engineer - Eastern US

📋 Description

• Build at the customer site. Write production-quality agents, integrations, and data pipelines on
• Work in unfamiliar territory, fast. Every customer engagement is a new codebase, a new data
• Own the technical deliverable. Understand what the engagement is supposed to produce, design the
• Be the Redpanda technical voice with the customer’s engineers. Work alongside their team daily.
• Drive toward exit from day one. Build with handoff in mind. Write documentation that their team can
• Feed learnings back. Identify patterns across engagements — what customers keep needing to build

🎯 Requirements

• Engineering depth. You write production software. You’ve built backend systems, data pipelines
• Agent and integration experience. You’ve built agents, worked with LLM APIs, or built integrations
• Ability to operate in any environment. You’ve worked in someone else’s codebase, with constraints
• Customer-facing communication. You can work directly with a customer’s engineering team — their
• Shipped at a customer site or in a deployment context. You’ve personally been in the room when
• Bonus: experience in forward-deployed or customer-embedded engineering model; background in

🎁 Benefits

• Travel: 30–50% during active engagements; lighter between engagements. You’ll be on-site when the
• Remote-first company culture with global team members.
• Diverse, people-first environment with trust, transparency, and kindness.
• Opportunity to work with the latest AI tools and infrastructure.