Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
A software engineer who embeds with customer teams to deploy, adapt, and troubleshoot cloud-native systems in secure, classified, or on-prem environments.
Role type
Senior IC platform engineer (forward-deployed)
Builds
Production Kubernetes workloads, automation tooling, and infrastructure-as-code for government and enterprise clients
Domain
Cloud-native infrastructure, secure government networks, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Helm/Kustomize), Backend development (TypeScript/Java/Go/Python), Distributed systems debugging, Networking fundamentals (DNS/TCP/IP/CNI), Scripting (Bash/Python), Cloud platforms (AWS)
Preferred skills
Air-gapped environment deployment, AWS GovCloud, DoD accreditation processes (RMF/NIST 800-53), Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), eBPF, Observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/EFK)
Technologies
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, AWS, GovCloud, Calico, Cilium, Multus, Istio, Linkerd, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK
Responsibilities
Deploy and operate Kubernetes workloads in production, troubleshoot distributed system failures and networking issues, build automation and tooling, embed with customer engineering teams to adapt platforms to constraints, communicate technical concepts to non-experts
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
