Forward-Deployed Engineer, AI Security & Cloud

DepthFirst; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Office lunch and dinner in SF

Job summary

depthfirst is seeking a Forward-Deployed Engineer to help enterprise customers deploy depthfirst in their environments. You will design deployment architectures, troubleshoot complex systems, and write production code to unblock customers.

You’ll own deployments from architecture through production readiness, collaborate with security and cloud teams, and translate field learnings into platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes, including deploying, debugging, and operating applications in production.
• Solid understanding of networking and cloud security fundamentals, including private connectivity, DNS, TLS, IAM, and access controls.
• Ability to investigate problems across infrastructure and application boundaries, identify root causes, and implement fixes.
• Proficiency in a language such as Go or Python, with experience shipping production code and automation.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability.
• Strong communication skills and an interest in working directly with customers.
• Ownership and sound judgment when requirements are ambiguous or a deployment doesn’t fit an existing playbook.
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise deployments from architecture and planning through installation, troubleshooting, upgrades, and operational handoff.
• Work directly with customer security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to understand their environments and establish a clear path to production.
• Solve deployment challenges across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, identity and access management, and application configuration.
• Write code to unblock deployments, build integrations, and deliver new product capabilities.
• Build tooling and automation for onboarding, deployment validation, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
• Turn recurring customer needs into reusable platform improvements, working closely with our infrastructure, product, and security engineers.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs, dependencies, and progress clearly, keeping customer and internal teams aligned.
• Travel to customer sites as needed to support successful deployments.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure experience

Kubernetes

Go or Python

Production code

IaC / CI pipelines

Observability

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

Helm

EKS

Job description

depthfirst is seeking a Forward-Deployed Engineer to help enterprise customers deploy depthfirst in their environments. You will design deployment architectures, troubleshoot complex systems, and write production code to unblock customers.

You’ll own deployments from architecture through production readiness, collaborate with security and cloud teams, and translate field learnings into platform improvements.