Forward Deployed Engineer (Fully Remote)

Redpanda; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Redpanda is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customers and build agent data pipelines and integrations at customer sites. You will dive into unfamiliar codebases and environments, rapidly ramping to contribute from day one.

You will own end-to-end technical deliverables from design through handoff, with thorough documentation and handover to customer teams. This role requires significant customer-facing experience and deep backend/data-pipeline expertise, with the ability to

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of software engineering and customer-facing experience.
• Deep engineering skills in backend systems, data pipelines, and agent systems.
• Ability to operate in any codebase and communicate with customer engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality agents and data pipelines at customer sites.
• Work in unfamiliar codebases and environments, ramping quickly.
• Own technical deliverables from design to handoff, with documentation.

Job description

• Redpanda is building the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) for enterprise mission-critical agents.
• Forward Deployed Engineering embeds engineers directly with customers to build agents and integrations.

You Will:

• Build production-quality agents and data pipelines at customer sites.
• Work in unfamiliar codebases and environments, ramping quickly.
• Own technical deliverables from design to handoff, with documentation.

You Have:

• 6-10+ years of software engineering and customer-facing experience.
• Deep engineering skills in backend systems, data pipelines, and agent systems.
• Ability to operate in any codebase and communicate with customer engineering teams.

Redpanda

Redpanda is the first runtime and control plane for agent-data interaction, combining streaming, SQL analytics, and intelligent connectivity with governance for enterprise AI agents. It is a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe, trusted by Fortune 500 companies and startups.