Plain
Forward Deployed Engineer
$180K–$250K
San Francisco office · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
About the job
Own engineering work for strategic customer deployments, from diagnosing and scoping problems to designing and shipping solutions, and identify work that should become part of the product.
What you'll do
- Work directly with customers to diagnose problems, scope fixes, and deliver them end to end.
- Design customer deployment systems and explain plans and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Coordinate with Sales, CX, Product, and Engineering to inform the roadmap and help define the growing Forward Deployed function.
What they ask for
- Experience building and shipping full-stack products end to end, including modern frontend and production-ready backend development.
- Strong customer communication, product judgment, and ability to turn ambiguous requests into concrete scope.
- Ability to own outcomes and work effectively with limited scaffolding and changing requirements.
Pay
$180K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
React, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Terraform
AI focus
The company builds tools that empower humans and AI; the role's AI-specific work is not stated.
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