Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Location

California + 3 moreAll locations: California | Illinois | New York | Texas

Posted

31 days ago

Salary

$200K - $315K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Vista Equity Partners

• Embed with company engineering teams for focused 8 to 24 week engagements • Own delivery end to end • Work inside their repos, CI/CD, security review, and code standards • Leave behind systems their teams can operate, extend, and trust • Build advanced CodeGen and agentic workflows including custom subagents, skills, MCP servers, eval harnesses, background agents, and PR review automation • Implement evals, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints sized to risk • Pair program and prompt alongside their engineers as a teaching mechanism • Partner with engineering leadership to scope high-leverage opportunities with clear business metrics and acceptance criteria • Contribute patterns, accelerators, and reference implementations back to Vista's shared FDE and AI Ops playbooks for reuse across the portfolio

Job Requirements

  • 7 to 10 years of production software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of sustained, daily use of frontier AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or equivalent) on production work
  • Demonstrated success driving AI or automation transformation at the enterprise level
  • Comfort ramping quickly across languages and stacks (Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, and others)
  • Cloud infrastructure depth on AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus containerization, CI/CD, and observability
  • Prior FDE, embedded solutions engineering, technical consulting, staff product engineering, or early-stage startup engineering experience
  • Willingness to travel 35% to 50%.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Annual cash bonus

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