Prelude

Forward Deployed Engineer

Prelude

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

Visit company website

Explore more

AI Apply
Apply

Salary

💰 $200,000 - $320,000 per year

About the role

  • Partner directly with customers to understand their unique environments, operational constraints, and capability gaps
  • Design and implement custom telemetry integrations: extend Origin's platform to ingest customer-specific data sources, proprietary log formats, and external threat intelligence
  • Build bespoke detection and analytics capabilities: develop custom correlation logic, confidence scoring models, and automation workflows tailored to customer needs
  • Extend the agent for unique environments: ensure Origin works flawlessly in specialized infrastructure, performance-constrained systems, and customer-specific deployment scenarios
  • Develop full-stack solutions: build custom dashboards, API integrations, data pipelines, and frontend experiences that solve specific customer problems
  • Gather customer feedback and field insights: translate real-world challenges into product requirements and engineering priorities
  • Collaborate with research and development teams: share field learnings that drive platform innovation and new capabilities
  • Support customers through deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization: ensure successful adoption and long-term value realization

Requirements

  • Strong full-stack engineering capability: comfortable building across frontend (React, TypeScript), backend (Rust, Python), and endpoint agent systems
  • Proven problem-solving ability: creative approaches to novel technical challenges, especially in customer environments with unique constraints
  • Experience integrating external systems: building data adapters, API integrations, custom telemetry collection, or extending existing platforms
  • Operating system fundamentals: understanding of Windows and/or macOS internals, process management, memory architecture, and system security mechanisms
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills: ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with clarity and patience
  • Customer empathy and business acumen: genuine interest in understanding customer operational challenges and translating them into technical solutions
  • Innate aptitude for customer-facing work: you're cool, confident, capable, and genuinely likable - customers should love working with you
  • Comfortable in fast-paced startup environments with evolving priorities and hands-on execution.
Benefits
  • generous healthcare
  • flexible PTO
  • home-office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
full-stack engineeringfrontend developmentReactTypeScriptbackend developmentRustPythonAPI integrationstelemetry collectiondata pipelines
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillscustomer empathybusiness acumencustomer-facing aptitudeadaptabilitycollaborationcreativitypatience