Production-First Forward Deployed Engineer

Dex; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical journey from PoV/PoC enablement to production readiness and deployment. You will work hands-on with customer engineers and OSS evaluators on integrations, reference implementations, and architecture guidance.

You will drive the transition from PoC to production-ready environments, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud setup, observability, networking, security, and operational patterns.

Qualifications

• Go or Rust proficiency with one of TypeScript, Java, or Python.
• Strong Kubernetes skills and observability mindset; hands-on AWS/GCP/Azure experience.
• Experience designing and operating real distributed backend systems in production.
• Comfortable being the technical face of a product to senior customer engineers (Staff/Principal).
• Eligible to work in Europe or the US.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical path from PoV/PoC enablement through production readiness and deployment.
• Collaborate with customer engineers and OSS evaluators on integrations, references, and architecture guidance.
• Drive PoC-to-production transitions: Kubernetes, cloud setup, observability, networking, security, and ops patterns.
• Support discovery workshops, POV planning, and participate in escalation/on-call rotations for critical issues.
• Feed friction back into engineering: docs, examples, SDKs, and core product improvements.

Skills

Go/Rust

TS/Java/Python

Kubernetes

Clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Distributed systems

Job description

Dex seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical journey from PoV/PoC enablement to production readiness and deployment. You will work hands-on with customer engineers and OSS evaluators on integrations, reference implementations, and architecture guidance.

You will drive the transition from PoC to production-ready environments, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud setup, observability, networking, security, and operational patterns.