Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Ava Labs

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Ava Labs designing bespoke solutions for institutional partners on the Avalanche blockchain. Collaborate with high-profile customers and lead technical delivery.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldSenior💰 $143,000 - $179,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoNode.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own FDE technical delivery across a named set of institutional partners — designing the architecture across the entire Avalanche stack (node / validator setup, failover procedures, interoperability, …) from partner ask to working output
Pair with Enterprise Go-to-Market on active POCs to close the gap between commercial requirements and production-grade technical solutions
Represent Avalanche credibly in partner-facing technical settings: sit across from Directors of Engineering at financial institutions and translate bespoke asks into scoped requirements without losing the strategic frame
Engage in depth, not volume — most weeks are heads-down implementation work punctuated by focused technical syncs, not a meeting-heavy customer-success cadence
Work hands-on across the Avalanche stack: AvalancheGo, EVM, Interchain Messaging, and validator infrastructure
Design and implement solutions that operate within the constraints regulated institutions actually run: KMS/HSM remote signing, audit trails, restricted-peer networking, backup/restore procedures, firewall topologies
Respond to security assessment requests and technical diligence from institutional partners
Contribute to and maintain the developer tooling and SDK surface owned by FDE. This is the same tooling that underpins partner deployments and the broader Avalanche ecosystem
Harden, extend, and document tooling driven by recurring institutional requirements, so that the next partner inherits a more capable platform than the last
Treat tooling work and partner delivery as a single loop: lessons from each engagement land back in the shared surface
Identify when a one-off partner solution should become a reusable FDE artifact and drive that abstraction
Build and maintain runbooks, technical documentation, and the FDE Protocol Requests database (Notion-tracked)
Accelerate conversion timelines for subsequent regulated partners by compounding the institutional playbook with each engagement
Shadow and contribute to the most complex active engagements early, internalizing the institutional playbook in context
Take primary FDE ownership of named partners as ramp completes, reducing concentration risk on the team
Operate as a credible future #2 within FDE, exhibiting mentorship, end-to-end scope ownership, and comfort representing the function externally

Requirements

What you’ll need

Hands-on depth across the Avalanche (or a comparable L1/L2) stack
AI-native execution, proven ability to leverage modern coding assistants and agentic tooling to produce production-grade output at speed
Customer-facing maturity in enterprise or institutional settings; comfortable representing technical depth to senior engineering stakeholders at regulated financial institutions
Strong documentation and operational discipline: you close loops, build runbooks, and maintain the tracked artifacts FDE's institutional partners depend on
Pattern abstraction instinct, you recognize when a bespoke partner solution should be generalized and you drive that productization

Benefits

Comp & perks

Token and Equity Package

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Hard Skills & Tools

Avalanche stackAvalancheGoEVMInterchain Messagingvalidator infrastructureKMSHSMaudit trailsbackup proceduresfirewall topologies

Soft Skills

customer-facing maturitymentorshipoperational disciplinedocumentation skillspattern abstractionend-to-end scope ownershiptechnical communicationstrategic thinkingcollaborationproblem-solving