Forward Deployed Engineer

Posted 22 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
170K-250K Annually
Mid level
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Own technical delivery for key customers while spending approximately 60% of the time coding and 40% on customer engagement. Responsibilities include triaging issues, shipping production fixes, developing backend and product expertise, discovering customer needs, improving the core product, supporting demonstrations and events, and communicating independently on ambiguous work.
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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.

Skills Required

  • 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 incorporate customer feedback
  • Computer science or closely related technical degree
  • Proficiency with TypeScript, React, or Python
  • Strong customer communication skills
  • Ability to independently own ambiguous work
  • Previous forward deployed engineering experience
  • Demonstrable software delivery alongside a consulting background
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.

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