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Forward Deployed Engineer

HackerRank
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$160k - $185kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to work onsite with customers, leading pilots, demos, and supporting customer evaluation and adoption. Combines customer engagement with technical execution across full-stack web applications and integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer-facing engagements, including discovery, pilots, and demos, acting as the primary technical voice in front of prospects and customers.
  • Partner onsite with customers, engineers, recruiters, and business leaders to uncover developer needs, listen with empathy, and shape practical, goal-driven solutions.
  • Keep customer projects on track through disciplined execution and proactive updates.
  • Use the right tools, including AI when useful, to deliver faster, more reliable outcomes that strengthen HackerRank’s customer experience.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to elevate the voice of the customer.

Qualifications

  • A customer-facing technical lead with enough full-stack depth to configure, debug, and explain web applications, integrations, and generate API scripts as needed (Ruby or Python).
  • Confident leading conversations onsite with prospects and enterprise customers while gathering requirements, shaping technical approaches, and delivering results that drive measurable impact.
  • A clear communicator who can go deep with engineers or simplify for non-technical crowds.
  • A strong operator who plans, executes, and follows through, keeping projects organized.
  • You lead with empathy, energy, and a problem-solver’s mindset.

Skills

Required:PythonSQL
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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