Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Vista Equity Partners

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer working with engineering teams of enterprise software companies. Delivering production outcomes and contributing to Vista's Product & Technology Practice.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • California, Illinois, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $315,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Embed with company engineering teams for focused 8 to 24 week engagements
Own delivery end to end
Work inside their repos, CI/CD, security review, and code standards
Leave behind systems their teams can operate, extend, and trust
Build advanced CodeGen and agentic workflows including custom subagents, skills, MCP servers, eval harnesses, background agents, and PR review automation
Implement evals, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints sized to risk
Pair program and prompt alongside their engineers as a teaching mechanism
Partner with engineering leadership to scope high-leverage opportunities with clear business metrics and acceptance criteria
Contribute patterns, accelerators, and reference implementations back to Vista's shared FDE and AI Ops playbooks for reuse across the portfolio

Requirements

What you’ll need

7 to 10 years of production software engineering experience
3+ years of sustained, daily use of frontier AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or equivalent) on production work
Demonstrated success driving AI or automation transformation at the enterprise level
Comfort ramping quickly across languages and stacks (Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, and others)
Cloud infrastructure depth on AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus containerization, CI/CD, and observability
Prior FDE, embedded solutions engineering, technical consulting, staff product engineering, or early-stage startup engineering experience
Willingness to travel 35% to 50%.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits package
Annual cash bonus

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Hard Skills & Tools

production software engineeringAI toolsPythonJavaGoTypeScriptC#cloud infrastructurecontainerizationCI/CD

Soft Skills

teachingcollaborationscoping opportunitiescommunication