Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform Engineering

## About the role Partner with a team to move one of their high-leverage systems onto the platform, alongside the engineers who own it, through to production. Start from the business process: understand how it works and re-engineer it, then design the right system to support it. Build the new pieces hands-on, in the team's codebase, using the platform's agents and tooling to move fast. Work directly with the team's engineers so they own and run the result when you leave. Where migrating a legacy system in one cutover is too risky, take an incremental, strangler-fig path that keeps the business running throughout. Own the outcome in production: reliability, safe deployment, and the system doing its job before you exit. Feed what you learn back to the platform team, so the tooling and golden paths get better each time. You re-engineer the business, then the system. The most important thing you do is business-process re-engineering: get deep into how a process works and the logic beneath it, rethink it, and design the right system to support it. The architecture follows from understanding the business, not from the shape of the old code. Then you build it. A builder-architect who ships: you turn a design like that into a running system with your own hands, in the team's codebase. This is a builder's seat, not an advisory one. ## AI-native You've shipped production software with generative AI and agents, and you put agents on the mechanical work so your time goes to the hard parts. ## At home Joining an unfamiliar codebase and org, partnering with the people who own the system, and earning the trust to deliver. ## Requirements - Hands-on experience using generative AI and agents to build production software. - 3+ years owning delivery of complex cross-team technical projects end to end. - Strong distributed-systems, system-design, and cloud foundation (Azure a plus), across the surfaces this work touches: identity, deployment safety, and observability. - Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in software engineering, technical program management, or product development — OR equivalent experience. ## Nice to have - Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in software engineering, technical program management, or product development — OR equivalent experience.