Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — EMEA / Remote

Remote (EMEA)

$100,000 – $150,000 + equity

Full-time | Senior | Foundational Role

About The Role

Our client is building a modern platform for software supply chain security, enabling organizations to gather, secure, and contextualize all SDLC data across their environments.

They are hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — a rare, high-impact role at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. This is not a traditional Solutions Architect position. You will code daily, work directly with strategic enterprise customers, and shape both the product direction and this function itself.

As a founding member of this role, you'll help define how the company partners with its most demanding customers — often Fortune 500, financial institutions, and highly regulated organizations.

What You'll Do

• Write production code daily, primarily in Go
• Build fast proofs of concept (POCs) and production-ready integrations
• Implement complex CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability workflows
• Work hands-on inside customer environments to deploy and refine solutions
• Act as the technical bridge between customers and core engineering
• Identify patterns, risks, and opportunities early — before they escalate
• Feed real-world insights back into product strategy and roadmap
  
  
  

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years as a Senior / Staff Engineer, Architect, or equivalent
• Strong hands-on coding experience (Go strongly preferred)
• Experience supporting enterprise customers (Fortune 500, finance, government)
• Deep, practical understanding of modern software supply chains
• Experience with POCs, integrations, and production systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability tooling
• Excellent synchronous and asynchronous communication skills
• Calm, pragmatic, and effective under pressure
• Genuine interest in supply chain security and open-source ecosystems
  
  
  

How You'll Work

• Builder-first mindset: you dont just suggest solutions — you implement them
• High ownership, high trust, and minimal bureaucracy
• Pragmatism over perfection
• Comfortable shifting context quickly to support global customers
• Willing to jump on a call when it matters
  
  
  

What This Role Is Not

• Not a slideware or advisory-only role
• Not a feature-request handoff position
• Not a place to hide behind async communication during critical moments
  
  
  

Why Join?

• Foundational role with real influence on product, customers, and culture
• Direct exposure to complex, real-world enterprise environments
• Opportunity to shape how a next-generation security platform is adopted at scale
• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity upside
• Remote-first setup across EMEA
  
  
  

Apply now if you want to build, ship, and deploy real systems — and help define what forward deployed engineering looks like from day one...