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Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA
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Remote Ireland; Remote, Denmark; Remote, France; Remote, Germany; Remote, Italy; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, Sweden; Remote, United Kingdom
Our take: The real work here is diagnosing a strategic customer's deepest technical blocker, fixing it with production code, and turning that lesson into durable product improvements and industry-shaping narratives.
You are a Staff-level engineer who is happiest where a hard customer problem meets a real codebase, and you want to actually fix it rather than escalate it. Here you will read the traces, open the merge request, and then turn what you learned into patterns and writing the whole company can reuse. If you love pairing deep engineering craft with the frontier of AI-assisted software delivery, and you can move a room without any formal authority, this is your kind of work.
Needs
- writing production code
- debugging complex systems
- root cause analysis
- cross-team work
- technical storytelling
- systems analysis
Rewards
- high-stakes customer work
- publishing thought leadership
- visible product impact
- spotting reusable patterns
- learning ai frontier
Demands
- complex ambiguity
- influence without authority
- urgent customer pressure
- tense customer sessions
- cutting one-off work
Grows
- agentic ai workflows
- persuading stakeholders
- technical narratives
- turning mess into clarity
Values
- craftsmanship
- rigour
- working in the open
- user obsession
- long-term thinking
Drains
- endless cross-team coordination
- documenting everything
- compliance handoffs
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