Forward Deployed Engineer
$248,000–$282,000 year
HybridSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Collaborate with engineering leaders and platform teams to deploy Command into customer environments, configuring secure access to source-control, CI/CD, and identity systems. Establish technical foundations for adoption while designing release workflows and pairing with engineering teams to clarify decision-making contexts. Move between cloud infrastructure, integrations, and automation to turn customer-specific solutions into reusable product capabilities. Work directly in customer environments to build stronger systems for software development, writing production-quality code when needed. Operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with strong communication skills to explain technical tradeoffs to diverse audiences. Based in San Francisco or New York City on an office-centric hybrid schedule with standard in-office days on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, customer engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing role
- Strong coding and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to move from whiteboard to production
- Strong understanding of product development and engineering workflows, and familiarity with the systems those teams use to plan, build, ship, and debug software
- Experience building or integrating software across APIs, event flows, data models, permissions, automation, or agent-based workflows
- Strong technical judgment: you know when to customize, when to simplify, and when to push for productization
- Ability to work directly with customers and internal stakeholders without heavy structure
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the answer is not already documented
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
- This role is based in our San Francisco or New York City office with an office-centric hybrid schedule
- The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays
- Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner
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