Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — EMEA Remote

Remote (EMEA)
$100000 $150000 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 youll help define how the company partners with its most demanding customers often Fortune 500 financial institutions and highly regulated organizations.

What Youll 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 Were 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 Youll 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...