Forward-Deployed Infra Engineer for Enterprise Deployments

FDE Times; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Lunch

Transport reimbursement

Health insurance

Wellness budget

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reducto is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist to lead deployments into customer environments, from planning to rollout. You will partner with enterprise IT, security, and platform teams to tailor deployment strategies to constraints and ensure secure, reliable operations.

You will work hands-on across cloud platforms, containers, networking, and storage, building monitoring and automation while owning incidents and driving scalable patterns for future

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating production infrastructure.
• Comfortable with Python or similar languages and cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication with external engineers and customers.
• Hands-on deployment experience in environments you do not fully control.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Reducto into customer environments, including planning, config, testing and rollout.
• Partner with enterprise IT, security, and platform teams to design deployment strategies for constraints.
• Understand hardware powering in-house ML models for deployment on customer hardware.
• Build monitoring, telemetry, and phone-home patterns for visibility without compromising security.
• Debug and resolve customer-specific infra issues end-to-end (K8s misconfigs, IAM edge cases).
• Own incident response for customer deployments with strong operational excellence.
• Codify repeatable deployment patterns, runbooks, and automation to scale across deployments.

Skills

Python

Cloud platforms

Networking

Storage

Tools

Kubernetes

Replicated/KOTS

Helm

Job description

Reducto is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist to lead deployments into customer environments, from planning to rollout. You will partner with enterprise IT, security, and platform teams to tailor deployment strategies to constraints and ensure secure, reliable operations.

You will work hands-on across cloud platforms, containers, networking, and storage, building monitoring and automation while owning incidents and driving scalable patterns for future