Tailscale
Forward Deployed Engineer
$150K–$250K
Remote (United States) +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- Remote (United States)
Canada
United States - Experience
- 6+ years in a technical role, with a minimum of 2 years of customer-facing experience.
About the job
Works directly with strategic customers to design and validate solutions, support onboarding and adoption, resolve technical issues, and turn bespoke implementations into reusable resources.
What you'll do
- Design and test custom customer solutions, then develop reusable architectures, frameworks, and tooling.
- Lead customer onboarding, training, technical support, and ongoing adoption; conduct QBRs and advise on best practices.
- Share customer feedback internally and collaborate across teams to improve customer outcomes and product experience.
What they ask for
- 6+ years in a technical role, including at least 2 years of customer-facing experience.
- Experience working with enterprise customers in a consultative capacity.
- Strong understanding of networking, VPNs, and security principles.
- Prior customer-facing technical experience at a SaaS company, such as Technical Support Engineer, Solutions Engineer/architect, or Customer Success Engineer.
Pay
$150,000 — $250,000 USD (OTE; total pay)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Hiring process uses AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess candidates; all hiring decisions are made by people.
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