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Forward Deployed Engineer - META
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Remote, United Arab Emirates
Our take: The real work here is stepping into a strategic customer's hardest technical crisis, writing the production code that fixes it, and turning that learning into patterns the whole company can reuse.
You are a genuine engineer who wants to stay close to real production code while also stepping into the hardest customer situations, the ones too broad or urgent for any single team to own. Here you read the traces, write the fix, open the merge request, and then turn what you learned into patterns the whole company can reuse. If you love landing a strategic outcome without formal authority and shaping how the industry thinks about AI-assisted software delivery, this is where that rare mix of code, judgment, and narrative all matters at once.
Needs
- writing production code
- diagnosing complex systems
- root cause hunting
- cross-team resolution
- technical narratives
- working with customers
- technical ambiguity
Rewards
- stabilising real risks
- reusable patterns
- seeing product improve
- credible engineer respect
Demands
- quality standards
- influence without authority
- high stakes
- urgent pace
- remote async
Grows
- customer presentations
- turning mess to patterns
- ai and agentic sdlc
- reference docs
- thought leadership writing
Values
- engineering craftsmanship
- data-grounded rigour
- pragmatic judgment
- learning culture
- governance and compliance
- working in the open
Drains
- endless coordination
- process overhead
- adoption firefighting
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