APAC Forward-Deployed Engineer (Kubernetes & AI)

Stacklok; United States; Remote; USD 141,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Hybrid/Remote work environment

Team offsites

Job summary

Stacklok is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to drive APAC engagements, embedding with enterprise customers from evaluation to production deployment. You will lead hands-on delivery, design region-specific deployment patterns, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar across APAC.

You will own critical Kubernetes deployments, influence product roadmaps with field insights, and shape how AI and MCP tooling scale in regulated enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with production code experience.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise customer engagements in the field.
• Proven technical leadership through mentorship and engineering practices.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise across cluster architecture and RBAC.
• Observability skills using Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/Datadog/Grafana.
• Hands-on experience with MCP servers or AI agent tooling.
• AI-first mindset and exploration of agentic workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Startup mentality with ownership and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Lead forward deployed engagements across APAC end to end, from scoping each customer’s technical goals and deployment approach through to a working production deployment.
• Own the region’s technical calls as the in‑region anchor and escalation point for the hardest platform and Kubernetes problems customers raise.
• Design and deliver changes to how the platform deploys to Kubernetes, unblocking enterprise adoption and contributing those changes back upstream.
• Define the reusable reference architectures and deployment patterns that engagements across the region and the wider team build on.
• Set the technical bar for APAC, mentoring engineers through design reviews and pairing and serving as the technical gate for what good looks like in hiring.
• Own how forward deployed work runs in the region, adapting it to how local customers operate and shaping where it hands off to applied AI engineering.
• Establish the AI‑assisted practices and tooling the team adopts, and channel APAC field insight into the product roadmap.

Skills

Kubernetes

Enterprise customer delivery

Technical leadership

Go / cloud-native

Observability

AI tooling / MCP

Communication

Startup mindset

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Grafana

Flux

ArgoCD

Job description

Stacklok is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to drive APAC engagements, embedding with enterprise customers from evaluation to production deployment. You will lead hands-on delivery, design region-specific deployment patterns, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar across APAC.

You will own critical Kubernetes deployments, influence product roadmaps with field insights, and shape how AI and MCP tooling scale in regulated enterprise environments.