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Middesk

Forward Deployed Engineer

Middesk

. Own Technical Direction for Deployments .

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $148,000 - $275,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsGoPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own Technical Direction for Deployments
  • Lead architecture and technical design for complex, customer-facing systems and integrations.
  • Make and communicate clear trade-offs across speed, reliability, and scalability.
  • Identify systemic risks and drive improvements across deployments, not just one-off solutions.
  • Establish patterns and standards that other engineers can build on.
  • Partner deeply with strategic customers to understand their architecture, workflows, and constraints.
  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade integrations using Middesk APIs, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
  • Own deployments end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Solve ambiguous, high-impact problems that don’t yet have established playbooks.
  • Build and operate LLM- and agent-based systems in real customer workflows.
  • Design and maintain evaluation frameworks (evals) to measure quality, reliability, and correctness of LLM outputs and agent behavior.
  • Create test harnesses, metrics, and feedback loops to continuously improve AI-driven systems.
  • Feel comfortable running multiple coding agents or automated workflows in parallel, debugging failures, and reasoning about system behavior.
  • Act as a tight feedback loop between customers and core product teams.
  • Translate deployment learnings into reusable abstractions, internal tooling, and product improvements.
  • Influence roadmap priorities by surfacing recurring patterns, technical gaps, and opportunities for leverage.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to org-wide technical decisions.
  • Lead through influence, not authority—setting a high standard for engineering quality and pragmatism.
  • Guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
  • Help define what “great” looks like for Forward Deployed Engineering at Middesk.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 6+ years of experience building and shipping software in production environments.
  • Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead or domain owner for a team or major system.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language (TypeScript, Go, etc.).
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Comfort operating across the stack: backend systems, integrations, infrastructure, and tooling.
  • Strong debugging instincts and an ownership mindset—you care deeply about failure modes, not just happy paths.
  • Strong communication skills—able to articulate trade-offs clearly to engineers, product, and non-technical stakeholders.

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Comp & perks
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonTypeScriptGoAPIsdistributed systemscloud-native infrastructuredata pipelinesAI workflowsdebuggingproduction-grade integrations
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipproblem-solvinginfluencecollaborationownership mindsettrade-off analysisfeedbackdesign reviewcode review