Forward Deployed Engineer

Replit, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
12 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$180,000.0 - $300,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Software Applications User Authentication Software as a Service Computer Programming Databases Data Warehousing Software Debugging Programming Tools Identity and Access Management Software Deployment
+6 more
Software Engineering Systems Integration Enterprise Application Integration Large Language Models Build Management Codebase

Job description

Join our FDE team and work directly with some of the world’s largest organizations to turn their most ambitious ideas into production applications on Replit. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll partner closely with customers to understand their technical and business needs, architect solutions, and build the integrations and applications required to deploy Replit successfully within complex enterprise environments.

This is a deeply technical and hands-on role. You won’t just advise customers on what to build-you’ll build alongside them. You’ll take applications from initial idea and prototype through deployment and production, navigate complex enterprise environments, and solve the technical challenges that emerge when AI-powered software development meets real-world infrastructure, data, security, and organizational constraints.

You will:

  • Build with Customers: Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build high-impact applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial concept through production deployment.
  • Architect Enterprise Solutions: Design secure, scalable architectures that connect Replit with customers’ existing systems, data, APIs, identity providers, and infrastructure.
  • Integrate with the customer’s stack: SSO, data warehouses, internal APIs, and SaaS systems.
  • Own Technical Deployments: Serve as the technical owner for complex enterprise implementations, identifying blockers, debugging issues, and driving projects through to successful production adoption.
  • Bridge Customers and Product: Develop a deep understanding of how enterprises use Replit and translate field insights, technical constraints, and recurring customer needs into actionable feedback for Replit’s product and engineering teams.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences
  • Ship quickly and iterate based on customer feedback and usage data
  • Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements. Ship the best patterns back to the platform.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
  • Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
  • Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals.
  • Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
  • Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
  • Ability to translate business requirements and customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions, * Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, consulting, or another highly technical customer-facing role
  • Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, agents, or developer tools
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, application deployment, databases, APIs, authentication, and enterprise integration patterns
  • Experience integrating software into complex enterprise environments, including identity and access management, internal data sources, APIs, and existing developer infrastructure

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • 401(k) 4% Match
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance, Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

Competitive Salary & Equity

401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

Monthly Wellness Stipend

Autonomous Work Environment

In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

Quarterly Team Gatherings

In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

  • Meet the Replit Agent
  • Replit: Make an app for that
  • Replit Blog
  • Amjad TED Talk

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

  • Operating Principles
  • Reasons not to work at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.

Compensation Range: $180K - $300K

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