Frontier Deployed Engineer - On-Site, Customer-Driven

Buildkite; California; On-site; USD 223,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days

Remote-work allowance

Retirement and health coverage

16 weeks paid parental leave

Confidential EAP & mental health

Learning and growth support

Work from anywhere up to 6 weeks ayear

Job summary

Buildkite, the CI platform trusted by leading engineering teams, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with large customers from design through delivery. You'll define engagements, produce production code, and hand off to the platform and product teams.

The role is based on the US West Coast with regular travel to customer sites. You will work closely with Solutions Architects, TAMs, and Sales to scope opportunities, translate business needs into technical specs, and shape deployments

Qualifications

• Shipped production software end to end in the last few years.
• Can translate a business need into a technical spec and back again.
• Comfortable working with large, established enterprises during security reviews and evaluations.
• Willing to travel on-site with customers around 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Work through the customer's reality and scope engagements before the deal closes: partnering with Solution Architects and TAMs to dig into what stands between a customer and Buildkite, identifying true gaps.
• Turn true gaps into defined engagements: a clear deliverable, an estimate, and exit criteria that the customer and Buildkite both sign off on, then keep the work inside that scope as new asks come up.
• Build core platform features, held to the same bar as our product engineers, and hand off cleanly to Product and Engineering so what you build becomes a supported part of Buildkite.
• Help Solutions Architects and Account Executives recognize FDE opportunities in their deals and explain what FDE is (and isn't) in plain terms.

Job description

Buildkite, the CI platform trusted by leading engineering teams, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with large customers from design through delivery. You'll define engagements, produce production code, and hand off to the platform and product teams.

The role is based on the US West Coast with regular travel to customer sites. You will work closely with Solutions Architects, TAMs, and Sales to scope opportunities, translate business needs into technical specs, and shape deployments