Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge customers and engineering. You’ll deploy our platform in complex environments, design integrations, and drive expansion across strategic enterprise accounts.

This role is deeply technical and customer-embedded, focusing on deployment success, performance optimization, and occasional feature prototyping. Travel 10–20% is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven success building or deploying deeply technical products in enterprise settings.
• Strong technical foundation—degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience as a software engineer, solutions engineer, or forward deployed engineer.
• Proficiency with APIs, cloud, and distributed systems; comfortable designing and implementing integrations.
• Confident engaging with both technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical success of high-value customers from onboarding through expansion.
• Deploy on-prem, VPC, and hybrid environments ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
• Design and implement integrations across APIs, data pipelines, and authentication systems.
• Work with customer engineering teams to optimize workflows and debug production issues.
• Build connectors or lightweight features to unblock adoption.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineers, Product, and Core Engineering to ensure go-live and expansion.

Skills

Enterprise deployment

APIs & integrations

Cloud & distributed systems

Software engineering background

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Cloud Security | Full-time | Job ID: REF419U

Why Join Us?

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Key Responsibilities

The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to work at the frontier between customers and engineering. You’ll partner with strategic enterprise accounts to deploy, integrate, and scale our platform in complex environments.

This is a deeply technical, customer-embedded role focused on deployment success and expansion. You’ll design integrations, solve performance bottlenecks, and occasionally build small features or prototypes when needed.

You will:

Own the technical success of a few high-value, high-touch customers from onboarding through expansion.

Deployin on-prem, VPC, and hybrid environmentsensuring performance, scalability, and security.

Design and implement integrations across APIs, data pipelines, and authentication systems.

Work with customer engineering teams to optimize workflows, debug production issues, and tune system performance.

Build custom connectors, adapters, or lightweight features that unblock adoption.

Collaborate with Sales Engineers, Product, and Core Engineering to ensure customers go live smoothly and expand usage.

Represent customer needs internally, translating field learnings into roadmap input.

Occasionally travel (10–20%) for deployment, workshops, and relationship building.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

Proven success building or deploying deeply technical products in enterprise settings.

Strong technical foundation — degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Hands-on experience as a software engineer, solutions engineer, or forward deployed engineer.

Proficiency with APIs, cloud, and distributed systems; comfortable designing and implementing integrations.

Confident engaging with both technical and business stakeholders.

Thr in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where outcomes matter more than process.

Professional maturity: you’ll represent uswith some of the world’s largest enterprises.

Curiosity about AI, security, and enterprise systems.

Ability to learn and execute quickly under pressure.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Check Point Software Technologies is an equal opportunity employer and we strive for diversity in our workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to religion, race, color, sex, marital or veteran statuses, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which we operate.