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Forward Deployed Engineer

EngineerEngineerOtherRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2005H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

87 days ago

Salary

$180K - $230K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishJavaScriptPHPWordPress

Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer

Automattic

• 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. • 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. • 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).

Job Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Open vacation policy
  • Compensation philosophy information
  • Benefits page for country-specific benefits
  • Employee Resource Groups

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