Forward Deployed Engineer - US Remote

📋 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

• 6-10+ years of professional experience in a combination of software engineering and customer facing
• You write production software. You’ve built backend systems, data pipelines, APIs, or agent systems
• You’ve built agents, worked with LLM APIs, or built integrations between complex systems. You know
• You’ve worked in someone else’s codebase, with constraints you didn’t set, in a stack you didn’t
• You can work directly with a customer’s engineering team — their leads, their architects, their
• You’ve personally been in the room when something hard went live. You know the difference between a

🎁 Benefits

• Remote-first company
• Latest AI tools and budget to use them
• People-first organization with team members around the globe
• Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness