Forward Deployed Engineer - US National Security

You will deploy and operate the platform in cloud and air-gapped customer environments, work directly with mission users to build integrations and prototypes, deliver across application code, Kubernetes, infrastructure, databases, and data flows, and bring customer context back to product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, integrate, and operate the platform inside cloud and air-gapped customer environments
• Work directly with mission users to translate needs into software
• Build integrations, data pipelines, and capability prototypes
• Deliver application code, Kubernetes workloads, cloud infrastructure, databases, and data flows
• Act as the technical bridge between customers and product and engineering teams
• Diagnose and resolve problems in constrained environments
• Lead incident channels or virtual war rooms for critical issues
• Land fixes and share lessons with internal and customer stakeholders
• Maintain current documentation in Notion and work tracking in Linear
• Flag milestone threats within 24 hours

Requirements

• Strong programming ability in Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript
• Fluency developing with AI, coding agents, and LLM tooling
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience deploying and debugging workloads
• Production AWS experience building environments
• Working fluency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with schema design, query tuning, and safe data movement
• Ability to deliver outside a primary specialty
• Outstanding written and verbal communication
• Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform
• GitOps experience with Argo CD
• Data engineering at scale experience
• Distributed systems design and debugging experience
• Experience building machine learning or agentic systems
• Deep Linux/Unix and networking experience
• Experience delivering inside classified or regulated government environments

Benefits

• Hybrid work