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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer, Networking - **Company:** Redpanda Data - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £255,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Github, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Network Architecture, Zero Trust Network Access, TypeScript, Network Switches, Pulumi, Scripting, Snowflake, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Stripe, Hashicorp, Cloudflare, Terraform, Webhooks, Confluent, Databricks, Golang - **Published:** June 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5004b6ef048c1d4c ## About the Role Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, defense / public sector) where network architecture is also a compliance artifact. * Experience with air-gapped or BYOC deployments * Background in zero-trust / identity-aware networking (BeyondCorp / Cloudflare Access / Tailscale / Twingate style). * Have shipped private-link or hybrid-network products at a vendor (Snowflake, Confluent, Databricks, MongoDB Atlas, Cloudflare, HashiCorp), you understand the vendor side of this problem. * Experience in a forward-deployed model: Anthropic FDE, OpenAI Deployed, Palantir FDSE, Stripe FDE with a networking-leaning portfolio. ## Description * Production networking depth. You've designed and operated enterprise cloud networks - VPC architecture in AWS / GCP / Azure, private connectivity (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, ExpressRoute, Interconnect), hybrid networking, identity-aware proxies, egress controls. You've made architectural calls that held up under load and audit. * Code that runs in production. You don't outsource the build. When the topology needs glue - an identity-aware proxy, a webhook bridge, a private-link broker, a network-aware deployment tool - you write it. Strong scripting / backend skills (Go, Python, TypeScript) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK). * SaaS-to-private-network integration patterns. You've built systems where a public SaaS (Slack, Teams, GitHub, OpenAI APIs, an identity provider) had to talk to something inside a customer's private VPC - and you've done it without compromising the customer's security posture. You know the menu of options (webhooks, reverse tunnels, identity-aware proxies, private endpoints, brokered architectures) and when to use each. * Customer-facing communication. You can sit across from a customer's principal network engineer, security architect, or VP of Platform Engineering and earn their trust on technical depth - then drive their internal teams toward alignment. You don't need a PM to translate for you. * Patience for cross-team work. The bottleneck is usually not "what's the right architecture" but "how do I get five customer teams to commit to it by Thursday." You've done that., * Reports to: Senior Director, Customer Engineering. * Travel: Variable. Customer engineering teams will need you in the room when the architecture is being locked, but the topology-focused shape of the role likely runs lighter than the generalist FDE travel profile. Final travel expectation TBD. * Location: SF, Austin, or NY preferred; remote considered for the right candidate., U.S. base salary range for this role is $255,000, not including bonus and/or commission. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that Redpanda uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in the screening and assessment of applications for this position. However, all final hiring decisions are made by our human hiring team. Vacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Join Redpanda if you'd enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness. 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