Forward-Deployed Field Engineer — Operations Software

Praetori; Haarlem; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equity

Market-rate salary

Job summary

Praetori in Haarlem, the Netherlands, is seeking an engineer who sits beside operators, understands their hardest problems, and turns them into robust software that holds under pressure.

You will deploy into customers' environments, gain trust, prototype fast, ship to live operations, and return field insights to guide product roadmaps. Frequent travel and on-site work with defence, intelligence, and critical infrastructure customers are expected.

Qualifications

• You can show software you shipped into real use and explain the operational problem it solved.
• Strong, versatile engineering ability; you build end to end and move fast through unfamiliar systems.
• Record of shipping working software against ambiguous, fast-changing requirements.
• Judgement to know when to prototype and when to harden, and the discipline to do both well.
• Exceptional communication with non-engineers; you leave a conversation with the real problem defined.
• Comfort working on-site, travelling often, and operating in demanding environments.
• High ownership, low ego; fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Deploy on-site with defence, intelligence, public security and critical-infrastructure customers to understand their operations in depth.
• Translate messy operational reality into clear problems, then into working software.
• Prototype quickly against real workflows and data, iterating directly with the operators who will use it.
• Ship production capabilities into live, high-consequence environments, and stand behind them.
• Integrate with the customer's existing systems and constraints, including secure and offline environments.
• Become the trusted technical advisor to the operators and leaders you work with.
• Carry field insight back into the roadmap. Shape it with evidence, not opinion.
• Work within strict security and sovereignty requirements without letting delivery stall.

Job description

Praetori in Haarlem, the Netherlands, is seeking an engineer who sits beside operators, understands their hardest problems, and turns them into robust software that holds under pressure.

You will deploy into customers' environments, gain trust, prototype fast, ship to live operations, and return field insights to guide product roadmaps. Frequent travel and on-site work with defence, intelligence, and critical infrastructure customers are expected.