Forward Deployed Engineer, SF

The company is building one of the most advanced autonomous software testing platforms eliminating the need for developers to manually write and maintain frontend tests.

Its platform automatically observes real user interactions and generates deterministic end-to-end tests that continuously validate complex web applications. Customers include some of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world including Notion Discord Dropbox ElevenLabs Wiz and CoreWeave.

Backed by investors behind Twilio Twitch PagerDuty Intercom and Vercel along with founders and engineering leaders from GitHub Datadog Dropbox Segment and Cursor the company has become one of the fastest-growing infrastructure startups growing more than 5x year-over-year while serving high-value enterprise customers.

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco youll establish the companys US Forward Deployed Engineering function while partnering directly with engineering leaders at some of the worlds most innovative software companies. Youll combine deep software engineering product development customer architecture and technical leadership while helping shape both customer deployments and the core product itself.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a hypergrowth AI infrastructure company where engineers operate with founder-level ownership define entirely new functions and build technology used by world-class engineering organizations.

• Own end-to-end customer deployments from technical discovery through production rollout
• Architect implementation strategies for enterprise engineering organizations
• Embed directly with customer engineering teams to integrate the platform into complex production environments
• Write production code across the companys core platform to unblock customer deployments
• Debug complex browser internals CI/CD systems testing infrastructure and web application architectures
• Build new platform capabilities driven by customer requirements
• Navigate unfamiliar production codebases and rapidly identify technical solutions
• Partner directly with VP Engineering Staff Engineers and executive technical leadership at enterprise customers
• Lead technical pilots while serving as the primary engineering point of contact
• Shape the long-term product roadmap through insights gathered from customer deployments
• Establish Forward Deployed Engineering processes tooling and best practices as the US organization scales
• Collaborate closely with the CTO founders engineering leadership and product teams to deliver exceptional customer outcomes

• 38 years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience shipping production software end-to-end
• Experience working at high-growth startups or technically demanding engineering organizations
• Experience writing production code recently in modern software environments
• Experience owning customer deployments integrations or technical implementations
• Strong startup ownership mentality with demonstrated engineering execution
• Experience working directly with engineering customers and technical stakeholders
• Founding engineer ex-founder or early engineering experience strongly preferred
• Experience working across customer-facing engineering and product development preferred
• Experience operating independently with significant technical ownership

• Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals
• Expert JavaScript and TypeScript experience
• Strong understanding of browser internals and modern web architecture
• Experience debugging unfamiliar production codebases
• Strong CI/CD pipeline and testing infrastructure knowledge
• Experience with Web APIs and frontend platform architecture
• Strong systems design and software architecture capability
• Ability to solve complex algorithmic and coding problems under pressure
• Experience integrating developer tooling into large production environments
• Comfortable rapidly understanding and improving sophisticated engineering systems

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or another technical discipline preferred
• Strong engineering background with demonstrated software development expertise
• Top technical universities or exceptional engineering accomplishments strongly preferred

• Outstanding technical problem-solving
• Strong engineering ownership
• Excellent customer communication skills
• High execution mentality
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity
• Strong collaboration skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Structured systems thinker
• Passion for developer tools and engineering productivity
• Continuous learner embracing modern AI-assisted software development

• Base Salary: $200000 $400000
• Competitive Equity Package
• Opportunity to become the first US Forward Deployed Engineer
• Direct collaboration with founders CTO and engineering leadership
• Significant ownership across customer success and product direction
• Exceptional career growth with a clear path into technical leadership
• Hypergrowth Series A company growing more than 5x annually
• International team offsites premium benefits generous home office budget unlimited books and world-class engineering culture

This is an opportunity to help define how one of the fastest-growing developer infrastructure companies scales its customer engineering organization.

Youll work at the intersection of software engineering browser technology developer tooling enterprise architecture and customer success while partnering directly with some of the worlds best engineering teams.

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco youll build production software influence product direction establish the US FDE playbook and help shape how modern engineering organizations adopt next-generation developer infrastructure.