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Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed

Foxglove· Engineering
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Korea$123480k - $156189.4kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Build the data infrastructure that powers physical AI by designing and deploying Foxglove solutions for robotics teams in Korea, including sites with no internet access. Own projects end to end, work closely with customers, and contribute to product and internal libraries.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with customer teams, in Korean and English, to understand their goals, constraints and technical needs.
  • Design and build end-to-end solutions in small, tested steps (TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL and/or Rust).
  • Write clear scopes, timelines and success measures, from proof of concept to production.
  • Code alongside customer engineers and deploy in their cloud, on-prem and offline environments.
  • Install and update software at customer sites with no internet access, and write the runbooks for it.
  • Train customer teams and create docs in Korean and English.
  • Work with Sales, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success on the same accounts.
  • Bring what you learn from customers back to product, design and engineering.
  • Document what works, contribute to internal libraries and help the FDE team support Korean customers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Fluent Korean and fluent English, spoken and written.
  • You've run technical meetings with customer engineers and turned their requests into scoped work.
  • A track record of fast prototyping and step-by-step delivery with external stakeholders.
  • Backend experience in Node.js, Python or Rust, and frontend experience in React/TypeScript. C++ is a plus.
  • Docker, and comfort deploying and supporting software on networks with no internet access.
  • You can judge what to build and make it usable without a designer.
  • Able to work on your own with a team 16 to 17 hours behind you.
  • Comfortable working on site with customers in Korea when needed.
  • Comfortable with up to 50% travel, including to Korea.
  • Bonus: robotics or industrial automation experience, or a past deployed role.

Skills

Required:Korean and English fluencyCustomer engagement and technical scopingBackend developmentFrontend developmentDockerDeployment in offline/on-prem/cloud
Nice to have:C++Robotics/industrial automation exposure

Benefits

  • Competitive equity grant in a Series B company.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents, for U.S. full-time employees.
  • 401(k) matching up to 4%, for U.S. full-time employees.
  • 4 weeks of vacation, plus holidays and winter break.
  • All-expenses-paid company offsites 1–2× per year.
  • $300 monthly budget toward commuter benefits or building your personal workspace, depending on role/location.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Foxglove

The observability stack for Physical AI.

Foxglove is a purpose-built platform for robotics teams to collect, analyze, and learn from the vast quantities of multimodal data required to build, train, deploy, and operate reliable robots.

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