Security Services

Forward Deployed Engineer

East CoastHybridFull TimePosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

Forward Deployed Engineer
AI-powered cybersecurity platform
production code
custom integrations
detection logic
data pipelines
Python
Go
software engineer
security engineer

Nice to have

ambiguity
bias for action
customer-specific problems
technical bridge
voice of the customer
internal tooling

Role summary

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge our product, engineering, and strategic customers. This role involves embedding with customers, often security operations centers, to deploy, configure, and extend our AI-powered cybersecurity platform. You will write production code, build custom integrations and detections, and translate customer needs into shipped solutions within days. Responsibilities include owning technical deployments end-to-end, debugging complex issues, translating requirements into technical solutions, and providing customer feedback to influence the product roadmap. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in software or security engineering, strong coding skills in Python or Go, experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization, and a background in security concepts.

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of our product, our engineering team, and our most strategic customers. You'll embed directly with customers - often security operations centers, SOCs, and enterprise security teams - to deploy, configure, and extend our AI-powered cybersecurity platform against their real environments and real threats.

FDEs write production code, build custom integrations and detections, and turn ambiguous customer problems into shipped solutions - often in days, not quarters. You'll be the technical bridge between what customers actually need and what our product does, and you'll feed those learnings back into our roadmap.

What You'll Do

Embed on-site or virtually with customers to understand their environment, data sources, and threat models
Build custom integrations, data pipelines, detection logic, and workflows on top of our core platform to solve customer-specific problems
Own technical deployments end-to-end: architecture, implementation, validation, and handoff
Debug and resolve complex issues across the stack - from data ingestion to model behavior to UI - often under time pressure during live incidents
Translate messy, ambiguous customer requirements into scoped technical solutions
Act as the voice of the customer internally, feeding structured feedback to Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap
Write internal tooling, scripts, and reusable modules that make future deployments faster
Travel to customer sites as needed (expect variable travel, potentially 25–50% depending on account load)

Requirements

3+ years of experience as a software engineer, security engineer, or similar hands-on technical role
Strong coding ability in at least one of: Python, Go, or similar - able to build real, production-quality software quickly
Comfort operating with ambiguity - you can walk into an unfamiliar environment and figure out what "done" looks like
Background or strong working knowledge of security concepts: SIEM/SOAR, EDR, network telemetry, log analysis, threat detection, or incident response
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
Excellent communication skills - you can explain technical tradeoffs to both engineers and security analysts/executives
A bias toward action: you'd rather ship a working solution today than a perfect one next quarter
Willingness to travel and work directly with customers, sometimes during active incidents

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