
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Langfuse
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Germany
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Salary
💰 €90,000 - €160,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Make our best customers successful in production and expanding over time.
- Improve net revenue retention via adoption, outcomes, and proactive risk management.
- Scale your impact to our large user base and OSS community by contributing to documentation, guides, and other public content.
- Own strategic customer relationships (portfolio ownership)
- Be the primary technical partner for 10–20 strategic accounts.
- Run onboarding, success planning, and regular deep dives into the customer’s AI architecture and workflows.
- Drive adoption of key product capabilities across the lifecycle.
- Lead customers through production readiness: instrumentation strategy, data modeling choices, evaluation setup, alerting/monitoring expectations, security & privacy considerations, and operational playbooks.
- Provide pragmatic architecture guidance for real LLM systems.
- Build small prototypes, reference implementations, and demos when it unblocks a customer.
- Own the technical leadership during high-severity customer moments: triage, root-cause coordination, and crisp communication.
- Aggregate patterns across your portfolio and translate them into actionable product feedback.
Requirements
- Senior experience in a customer-facing technical role: TAM, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, or similar where you owned outcomes.
- Strong technical foundation: you can debug integrations, reason about distributed systems, APIs/SDKs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated work in applied AI / AI engineering: building, operating, or enabling LLM applications (agents, RAG, eval pipelines, prompt tooling, experimentation).
- Excellent communication: you can lead technical meetings, drive decisions, and write docs engineers actually follow.
- High ownership: you ship artifacts, close loops, and create repeatable systems rather than bespoke one-offs.
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Hard Skills & Tools
debuggingdistributed systemsAPIsSDKscloud infrastructureapplied AILLM applicationsdata modelinginstrumentation strategyoperational playbooks
Soft Skills
communicationtechnical leadershipownershipcustomer successproblem-solvingcollaborationdocumentationdecision-makingproactive risk managementcustomer relationship management