Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — EMEA / Remote
$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
- 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
- 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
- Not a slideware or advisory-only role
- Not a feature-request handoff position
- Not a place to hide behind async communication during critical moments
- 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...