Forward Deployed Engineer

Fdetimes; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Program: 4% match

Paid parental leave

Flexible Time Off

Commuter Benefits

Monthly Wellness Stipend

Autonomous Work Environment

In Office Amenities

Job summary

Replit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with large enterprise customers, embedding with teams to design, build, and deploy AI-powered workflows and integrations. You’ll own technical deployments, navigate security and data constraints, and drive production adoption across customer environments.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering to translate field needs into robust platform capabilities, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong programming skills across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and environments
• Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals
• Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture to production
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and drive projects independently
• Strong technical communication skills with customers or cross-functional partners
• Ability to translate business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Build with customers to design and deploy high-impact enterprise applications on Replit
• Architect secure, scalable integrations with customers’ stacks
• Integrate Replit with data warehouses, APIs, and internal systems
• Own deployments and drive production adoption, debugging blockers
• Bridge feedback from field to product and engineering teams
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering for high-quality experiences
• Ship iteratively based on customer feedback and usage data
• Create templates, playbooks, and product requirements from field patterns

Skills

5+ years experience

Strong programming

LLM apps in production

Architect complex systems

Technical communication

Translate business needs to tech

Job description

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

About the role

Join our FDE team and work directly with some of the world's largest organizations to turn their most ambitious ideas into production applications on Replit. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll partner closely with customers to understand their technical and business needs, architect solutions, and build the integrations and applications required to deploy Replit successfully within complex enterprise environments.

This is a deeply technical and hands-on role. You won’t just advise customers on what to build—you’ll build alongside them. You’ll take applications from initial idea and prototype through deployment and production, navigate complex enterprise environments, and solve the technical challenges that emerge when AI-powered software development meets real-world infrastructure, data, security, and organizational constraints.

You will

• Build with Customers: Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build high-impact applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial concept through production deployment.
• Architect Enterprise Solutions: Design secure, scalable architectures that connect Replit with customers’ existing systems, data, APIs, identity providers, and infrastructure.
• Integrate with the customer's stack: SSO, data warehouses, internal APIs, and SaaS systems.
• Own Technical Deployments: Serve as the technical owner for complex enterprise implementations, identifying blockers, debugging issues, and driving projects through to successful production adoption.
• Bridge Customers and Product: Develop a deep understanding of how enterprises use Replit and translate field insights, technical constraints, and recurring customer needs into actionable feedback for Replit’s product and engineering teams.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences
• Ship quickly and iterate based on customer feedback and usage data
• Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements. Ship the best patterns back to the platform.

Required skills and experience

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
• Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
• Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals.
• Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
• Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to translate business requirements and customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, consulting, or another highly technical customer-facing role
• Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, agents, or developer tools
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, application deployment, databases, APIs, authentication, and enterprise integration patterns
• Experience integrating software into complex enterprise environments, including identity and access management, internal data sources, APIs, and existing developer infrastructure

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include

• Competitive Salary & Equity
• 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
• Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
• Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Autonomous Work Environment
• In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
• Quarterly Team Gatherings
• In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

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• Replit Agent at Scale
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• Build Open-Source Apps

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

• Operating Principles
• Reasons not to work at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.