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Forward Deployed Engineer

Solutions EngineerSolutions EngineerOtherRemoteMid LevelTeam 1,001-5,000

Location

United States

Posted

87 days ago

Salary

$180K - $230K / year

Seniority

Mid Level

Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer

Automattic Careers

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will serve as an embedded technical partner to one or more complex WordPress VIP customers in Media, Enterprise, and Government. You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, consulting, and customer success—diving deep into customer architectures, identifying and resolving complex technical challenges, and shaping scalable solutions that drive long-term adoption and expansion. This is not a pure support or implementation role. It’s an advanced, consultative engineering position where you’ll operate as a hands-on architect, a trusted advisor, and a growth catalyst, helping customers succeed with WordPress VIP and related open-source technologies. What You’ll Do - Deliver Customer Technical Outcomes - Engage directly with large VIP customers (often embedded in their teams) to ensure successful adoption, integration, and scaling of WordPress VIP solutions. - Directly identify and solve complex architectural and technical problems. - Partner with customers as they leverage VIP’s support capabilities, ensuring they fully utilize VIP's high-availability support. - Conduct technical discovery and design sessions, producing architecture recommendations, migration plans, and implementation guidance. - Maximize the customer’s value from VIP’s platform, integrations, and partner ecosystem. - Drive Expansion Through Services-Led Growth - Identify and shape professional services opportunities through ongoing technical engagement. Document and refer engagements to other VIP PS teams. - Define scopes of work (SOWs) for technical expansion projects, collaborating closely with Services, Account Management, and Commercial teams. - Participate in presales and renewal discussions as the technical voice of confidence and credibility. - Hold and Share Deep Customer Context - Maintain a living technical knowledge base of customer architectures, deployments, and patterns. - Act as the internal authority on assigned customer environments, proactively identifying risks and opportunities. - Contribute to team-wide tooling and process improvements, including delivery platforms, AI workflows, and documentation systems (e.g., Rocketlane, Notion, or similar). - Contribute to the Forward Deployed Engineering Practice - Using data, help refine the operating model for FDE engagements, balancing presence, value, and scalability. - Experiment with and adopt AI-assisted workflows to improve delivery efficiency and insight generation. - Collaborate with the leadership to expand the practice into a repeatable, revenue-driving function. Qualifications - Required - 5+ years of hands-on experience in web or application engineering, minimally in PHP and/or JavaScript. - Strong familiarity with WordPress at scale, including common architectures, REST APIs, caching/CDNs, performance optimization, integration methods and security hardening. - Experience working directly with large customers in technical consulting, architecture, or professional services. - Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in distributed or high-traffic environments. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills: equally comfortable in a debugging session and an executive briefing. - Commercial mindset: ability to spot opportunities for value expansion and articulate ROI to non-technical stakeholders. - Ideal - Experience with WordPress VIP, enterprise hosting, or similar SaaS/PaaS platforms. - Prior experience as a solutions architect, senior developer, or forward deployed engineer in a consulting or SaaS/PaaS context. - Familiarity with AI-assisted development, observability tools, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.). - Domain experience in Government, Media, or Enterprise. Requirements - Technical Depth & Breadth: Rapidly understand diverse architectures and technologies. - Customer Empathy: Translate customer needs into actionable technical and business outcomes. - Problem Ownership: Take responsibility for technical success, even beyond formal scope. - Commercial Awareness: Balance engineering rigor with business objectives. - Learning Agility: Continuously adapt to new tools, patterns, and customer contexts. - Collaboration: Work fluidly with Services, Support, Product, and Commercial teams to deliver holistic outcomes. Benefits - Salary range: $180,000-$230,000 USD. - Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. - Consult our Benefits Page for a full list of benefits by country.

Job Requirements

  • Required 5+ years of hands-on experience in web or application engineering, minimally in PHP and/or JavaScript.
  • Strong familiarity with WordPress at scale, including common architectures, REST APIs, caching/CDNs, performance optimization, integration methods and security hardening.
  • Experience working directly with large customers in technical consulting, architecture, or professional services.
  • Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in distributed or high-traffic environments.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills: equally comfortable in a debugging session and an executive briefing.
  • Commercial mindset: ability to spot opportunities for value expansion and articulate ROI to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ideal Experience with WordPress VIP, enterprise hosting, or similar SaaS/PaaS platforms.
  • Prior experience as a solutions architect, senior developer, or forward deployed engineer in a consulting or SaaS/PaaS context.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development, observability tools, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.).
  • Domain experience in Government, Media, or Enterprise.
  • Technical Depth & Breadth: Rapidly understand diverse architectures and technologies.
  • Customer Empathy: Translate customer needs into actionable technical and business outcomes.
  • Problem Ownership: Take responsibility for technical success, even beyond formal scope.
  • Commercial Awareness: Balance engineering rigor with business objectives.
  • Learning Agility: Continuously adapt to new tools, patterns, and customer contexts.
  • Collaboration: Work fluidly with Services, Support, Product, and Commercial teams to deliver holistic outcomes.

Benefits

  • Salary range: $180,000-$230,000 USD.
  • Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy.
  • Consult our Benefits Page for a full list of benefits by country.

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