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Forward Deployed Engineer

depthfirst· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

Forward-Deployed Engineer who helps enterprise customers deploy and operate depthfirst in their environments, designing deployment architectures, troubleshooting complex systems, writing production code, and turning field learnings into scalable improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Own enterprise deployments from architecture and planning through installation, troubleshooting, upgrades, and operational handoff.
  • Work directly with customer security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to understand their environments and establish a clear path to production.
  • Solve deployment challenges across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, identity and access management, and application configuration.
  • Write code to unblock deployments, build integrations, and deliver new product capabilities.
  • Build tooling and automation for onboarding, deployment validation, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
  • Turn recurring customer needs into reusable platform improvements, working closely with our infrastructure, product, and security engineers.
  • Communicate technical tradeoffs, dependencies, and progress clearly, keeping customer and internal teams aligned.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed to support successful deployments.

Qualifications

  • Experience building and operating production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes, including deploying, debugging, and operating applications in production.
  • A solid understanding of networking and cloud security fundamentals, including private connectivity, DNS, TLS, IAM, and access controls.
  • Ability to investigate problems across infrastructure and application boundaries, identify root causes, and implement fixes.
  • Proficiency in a language such as Go or Python, with experience shipping production code and automation.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability.
  • Strong communication skills and an interest in working directly with customers. You can understand unfamiliar environments, explain technical decisions, and coordinate across teams.
  • Ownership and sound judgment when requirements are ambiguous or a deployment doesn’t fit an existing playbook.
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Skills

Required:Production-grade software developmentCloud infrastructureNetworking and cloud security fundamentalsInfrastructure as codeCustomer communication

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • Office lunch and dinner when working from our San Francisco office.
  • Direct impact on customer success and product direction.
  • The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and security.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About depthfirst

Autonomous Security from Design to Production

An AI-native platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.

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