Forward Deployed Engineer

About the company

Our client is a cybersecurity company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own technical delivery and communication for important customers, spending roughly 60% of your time coding and 40% in direct customer work.

What you'll do

- Triage customer questions, bug reports, and feature requests.

- Ship fixes and incremental improvements into production.

- Develop deep product and backend knowledge to guide customer decisions.

- Run discovery on customer needs and return improvements to the core product.

- Support technical demonstrations, customer engagements, and industry events.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 2 to 5 years of relevant full-stack engineering experience.

- Experience building a product from an early stage.

- Ability to write and ship production code and make improvements from customer feedback.

- A computer science or closely related technical degree.

- Proficiency with TypeScript, React, or Python.

- Strong customer communication and independent ownership of ambiguous work.

Bonus points

- Previous forward deployed engineering experience.

- Demonstrable software delivery alongside a consulting background.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 170,000 to 250,000 per year.

- Equity: 0.08-0.2%.

- Health, dental, and vision coverage.

- 401(k), commuting support, and office lunch and dinner.

- Relocation support.

Location and work model

- Five days per week onsite in San Francisco, with up to 25% travel. The role expects fast customer responses from 7 AM to 7 PM Pacific time and prompt acknowledgment of urgent requests outside those hours.