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Remote Forward Deployed Engineer jobs

123 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Forward deployed engineers are software engineers who work inside a customer's environment rather than on the core product team. They take a general platform and make it solve one customer's specific problem, writing production code, building integrations and data pipelines, and feeding what they learn back to the product organization.

About the Forward Deployed Engineer role

What the work looks like

  • Scope a customer's problem in working sessions with their operators and engineers, then turn it into a buildable technical plan.
  • Write and ship production code, often Python or TypeScript, that connects the vendor platform to the customer's data sources and internal systems.
  • Debug deployments inside customer cloud accounts or on-premises networks where access, permissions and tooling are restricted.
  • Demo working prototypes to customer stakeholders and adjust the build based on how their staff actually use it.
  • Write up recurring customer needs as product requests so that one-off builds become reusable platform features.

What employers ask for

  • Strong coding ability in Python, TypeScript or Java
  • SQL and data pipeline or ETL experience
  • API integration and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
  • Customer-facing communication with technical and executive audiences
  • Comfort working with ambiguous, loosely specified requirements
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites

Doing this job remotely

The coding itself is remote-friendly, but the role exists to be close to the customer, so most positions include regular travel to customer sites, sometimes for extended stretches. Working hours tend to follow the customer's time zone. Roles serving government or defense customers may require a security clearance and on-site work in secured facilities.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Most people come from software engineering, data engineering or technical consulting and want more direct contact with users. From here they commonly move into engineering management, product management, solutions architecture, or founding roles at startups.