
Forward Deployed Engineer
Stack Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $144,000 - $152,000 per year
About the role
- Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production.
- Contribute to SOW development by documenting technical specifications, identifying dependencies and risks, and defining acceptance criteria that protect delivery timelines.
- Build and validate integrations using our API, MCP server, and Knowledge Ingestion Engine, including connecting customer knowledge sources to AI-powered developer workflows.
- Write and maintain automation scripts (Python or similar) to streamline deployment processes, data ingestion pipelines, and environment configuration.
- Troubleshoot and resolve delivery challenges in collaboration with Customer Success, Product, and Support.
- Document and scale delivery processes by creating reusable playbooks, runbooks, and automation that enable repeatable deployments across customers and partner resources.
- Mentor and guide future engineers and partner resources, raising the overall standard of delivery excellence.
- Influence service evolution by feeding client and delivery insights into the design of new offerings.
Requirements
- Bring 3+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work
- Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
- Experience with enterprise integrations across developer tools like Slack, Teams, GitHub, Jira, or ServiceNow, including API-based and webhook-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and familiarity with containerization (Docker), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), or CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of MCP servers, RAG architectures, or enterprise AI deployment patterns. You should be able to configure and validate these workflows
- Experience with data ingestion and ETL patterns. You'll work with the Knowledge Ingestion Engine to connect diverse customer knowledge sources to Stack Internal.
- Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and business stakeholders. You'll be writing runbooks and presenting deployment status to engineering leaders.
Benefits
- Competitive Base Salary
- Generous paid vacation
- Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
- Equity for all employees at all levels
- Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Home Internet stipend
- Professional allocation for your growth and development
- One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
- Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScriptAPI developmentautomation scriptingdata ingestionETL patternscloud platformscontainerizationinfrastructure-as-codeCI/CD pipelines
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingdocumentation