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Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA
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Remote Ireland; Remote, Austria; Remote, Denmark; Remote, France; Remote, Germany; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, Switzerland; Remote, United Kingdom
Our take: The real work here is diagnosing high-stakes customer problems, contributing production-quality code to fix them, and turning field learning into reusable product improvements and thought leadership.
This is for the engineer who wants to stay hands-on with real production code while working where customer urgency meets deep technical ambiguity. You will diagnose gnarly problems across Git internals, CI/CD, infrastructure and AI adoption, then turn what you learn into durable product fixes and reusable patterns. If you can read a trace, open a merge request, lead a customer session and outline a whitepaper all in the same week, you will feel at home here.
Needs
- writing production code
- debugging systems
- root cause analysis
- cross-team work
- data-grounded analysis
- technical storytelling
Demands
- complex ambiguity
- high stakes
- influence without authority
- strategic risk
- tough customers
Grows
- synthesising complexity
- learning ai domains
- leading customer sessions
- persuading across teams
- systems design
Values
- craftsmanship
- pragmatism
- rigour
- transparency
- remote working
Drains
- long-form writing
- process discipline
- handing off ownership
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