Forward Deployed Engineer: Build & Deploy Real Solutions

Aleph (Formerly Red Alpha Cyber); Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Alpha Cybersecurity is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to translate customer problems into production-ready solutions. You will work hands-on across software, data, AI, and infrastructure, from discovery through deployment and troubleshooting, staying accountable until the solution is reliable.

In this role you’ll drive technical conversations, design architectures, and ship secure, observable systems.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years hands-on experience across software engineering, backend/platform engineering, data engineering, cloud/infrastructure, solutions engineering or similar.
• No degree requirement; evidence of ability to build, reason, and deliver in production.
• Strong Python and backend fundamentals, including APIs, authentication, testing, error handling and production debugging.
• Experience with SQL, data modelling, ingestion/ETL/ELT and production deployments with Docker and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, IAM/networking, CI/CD, observability and IaC is a strong advantage.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM systems, including RAG, tools/agents, evaluations, data access and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to understand customer workflows, constraints, data, security boundaries and success criteria.
• Translate customer problems into technical requirements, acceptance criteria and implementation plans.
• Design and build production solutions across Python, APIs, backend services, databases, data pipelines and AI-enabled workflows.
• Deploy solutions securely using Docker, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure; manage IAM, networking and IaC.
• Troubleshoot real-world production issues and ensure secure, observable, recoverable deployments.
• Explain decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders; maintain strong customer relationships.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend engineering

Data engineering

Cloud/infrastructure

Solutions engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Red Alpha Cybersecurity is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to translate customer problems into production-ready solutions. You will work hands-on across software, data, AI, and infrastructure, from discovery through deployment and troubleshooting, staying accountable until the solution is reliable.

In this role you’ll drive technical conversations, design architectures, and ship secure, observable systems.