Forward Deployed Engineer (up to $220k)

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process. If you're interested sign up to Dex to apply. Dex is an AI recruiter agent that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex your stack, seniority, and what you want to build. We will manage your applications and surface other opportunities that are a fit. The role This company builds a lightweight runtime that turns AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes. The goal: let engineering teams focus on business logic, not failure mechanics. Their runtime is already in production at Fortune 500 enterprises, Tier 1 banks running critical financial workflows, and frontier AI startups building production-grade agents. The founders are creators of Apache Flink and leaders from Meta's messaging infrastructure, backed by leading investors. As the founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you won't just execute a playbook; you'll write it. This is a rare seat to define how the function works, from PoC playbooks and path-to-production patterns to reusable enablement assets and the critical feedback loop into product. You'll own the technical journey from initial PoV/PoC enablement through to production readiness and deployment, working hands-on with sophisticated customer engineers at major enterprises and AI startups. The work Define the PoC playbook, path-to-production patterns, and reusable enablement assets for a new runtime.Own the technical path from PoC success to production readiness, including Kubernetes, cloud setup, observability, networking, and security integration.Work directly with customer engineers and OSS evaluators on integrations, reference implementations, and architecture guidance.Drive discovery workshops and POV planning, then feed friction and papercuts back into the engineering team, contributing to docs, examples, and SDKs.Take part in escalation and on-call rotations for critical customer issues, ensuring production stability. What You Bring Full proficiency in Go or Rust, plus at least one of TypeScript, Java, or Python.Strong Kubernetes skills, deep observability instincts, and hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.You've designed and operated real distributed backend systems in production, understanding failure modes from doing the work.A customer-success mindset: you go beyond immediate issues to understand context and activate internal champions.Comfortable being the technical face of the product in front of staff and principal engineers at Tier 1 banks and frontier AI teams.Eligible to work remotely from Europe. Why apply through Dex This is a founding role at a company solving a hard problem for major enterprises and frontier AI teams. Roles like this are rare and often oversubscribed. Apply through Dex to get properly briefed, skip the cold application process, and get matched to this role and others like it. If you're interested, sign up to Dex to apply - https://jobs.meetdex.ai/jobs/dd008655-3c8f-46c0-b72d-a8bc7ff62ad9 As part of the recruitment process at Dex, we process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants. This notice explains how and why your data is collected and used, and how you can contact us if you have any concerns.