Forward Deployed Engineer (SF)

re-zoo-me; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch and dinner in the office

Flexible PTO

Quarterly team offsites

Mission-driven culture

Job summary

Doppel is shaping the future of social engineering defense and seeks technically strong engineers who enjoy direct customer work. You will develop production-grade applications, AI-driven automations, and integrations across enterprise systems to protect brands and users.

Join a fast-paced startup with a collaborative culture, ownership mindset, and opportunities to influence product direction as you solve real-world security challenges at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production apps experience.
• Familiarity with AI application development or workflow automation is a plus.
• Comfortable engaging with enterprise customers and solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing applications and workflows for enterprise use.
• Develop AI-powered automations and integrations for customers and internal teams.
• Prototype and ship end-to-end solutions that evolve into core product features.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers to understand requirements and deployments.
• Maintain integrations with APIs, webhooks, identity providers, and SIEM/SOAR.
• Troubleshoot authentication and enterprise integration issues (OAuth, SAML, SCIM).
• Own multiple projects, coordinating across engineering, product, and customers.
• Translate feedback into scalable product improvements.
• Build internal tooling to accelerate onboarding and deployment.
• Create and maintain documentation, dashboards, and best practices.

Skills

Python

Production apps

REST APIs

AI/LLM basics

Customer collaboration

OAuth

SAML

SCIM

Tools

OAuth

SAML

SCIM

REST APIs

Job description

San Francisco, CA Not Applicable Engineering and Information Technology Technology, Information and Internet

In the era of AI, knowing what’s real is harder than ever.Social engineering threats are sophisticated, multi-channel campaigns. They lurk in your inbox, compromise your email channels, and weaponize fake profiles across social networks to deceive and defraud your people and your brands.Doppel is the agentic social engineering defense platform built to fight AI with AI. Unlike traditional systems that stop at detection and inbox scoring, Doppel delivers real-time disruption. We secure the in...

Why Join Doppel

Doppel is building the future of social engineering defense. Our AI-native platform uses agentic AI to protect executives, employees, customers, and brands from phishing, impersonation, fraud, and other AI-powered threats across digital channels. We help some of the world’s most recognized brands detect and dismantle attacker infrastructure while strengthening employee resilience through threat-informed training and simulation. By unifying Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management and Email Security, Doppel connects threats into a real-time intelligence graph to power faster disruption, smarter defense, and modern security awareness at scale.

Why Join Doppel

Doppel is building the future of social engineering defense. Our AI-native platform uses agentic AI to protect executives, employees, customers, and brands from phishing, impersonation, fraud, and other AI-powered threats across digital channels. We help some of the world’s most recognized brands detect and dismantle attacker infrastructure while strengthening employee resilience through threat-informed training and simulation. By unifying Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management and Email Security, Doppel connects threats into a real-time intelligence graph to power faster disruption, smarter defense, and modern security awareness at scale.

Backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, and trusted by leading enterprises, Doppel is a rapidly growing Series C startup building the future of social engineering defense. Our team combines deep cybersecurity expertise, operational rigor, and startup velocity to solve some of the internet’s most urgent trust and safety challenges.

What We're Building

We're building the AI-native social engineering defense platform.

This means we're designing scalable systems that monitor billions of domains, social media accounts, apps, dark web forums, etc., and leverage AI agents to identify and neutralize digital threats.

What You'll Do

We're looking for technically strong, product-minded engineers who enjoy working directly with customers to solve complex problems and rapidly build solutions that become part of the Doppel platform. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with customer empathy, product intuition, and the ability to execute independently in ambiguous environments.

• Build customer-facing applications, workflows, and product capabilities that solve real enterprise problems.
• Develop AI-powered automations and integrations for customers and internal teams.
• Prototype and ship end-to-end solutions that can evolve into core product functionality.
• Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand requirements and drive successful deployments.
• Build and maintain integrations with APIs, webhooks, identity providers, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and other enterprise systems.
• Troubleshoot authentication and enterprise integration issues (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, etc.).
• Own multiple customer projects simultaneously, coordinating across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Translate customer feedback into scalable product improvements.
• Build internal tooling that accelerates onboarding, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Create and maintain documentation, dashboards, and best practices for customer deployments and integrations.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong software engineering background with experience building production applications (Python preferred).
• Familiarity with AI application development, LLM APIs, or workflow automation is a strong plus.
• Comfortable working directly with enterprise and non technical customers to solve technical problems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise authentication and integrations (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, webhooks, REST APIs).
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical teams.
• Product-minded, highly autonomous, and comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.

What We Offer

• A mission-driven culture with low ego, high ownership, deep customer obsession, and exceptional talent density
• Free lunch and dinner in the office
• Flexible PTO
• Quarterly team offsites

Join Doppel

Doppel is the first platform built to dismantle digital deception at scale. We scan over 150 billion entities daily and deploy continuously adaptive AI SOC agents, paired with expert human analysts, to uncover and disrupt the infrastructure behind phishing, impersonation, and online fraud before attacks can spread. Our Threat Grid turns every customer signal into shared intelligence, making each disruption smarter, faster, and more effective.

We’re not just another cybersecurity company. We’re defining the future of social engineering defense, where trust is protected, and deception becomes unprofitable. Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, Doppel is growing fast. If you’re driven to solve real-world problems with bold technology, we’d love to meet you.