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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEA
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Remote Ireland; Remote, Austria; Remote, France; Remote, Germany; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, Spain; Remote, United Kingdom
Our take: The real work here is dropping into high-stakes customer problems, diagnosing them deeply, contributing production code to fix them, and turning the learning into reusable patterns before handing ownership back.
If you are a staff-level engineer who loves dropping into a genuinely hard customer problem, reading the traces, writing the fix, and then turning what you learned into something the whole company can reuse, this is your room. You will sit where urgent customer reality meets real product code, debugging across architecture, Git internals, CI/CD, and AI governance, then coordinating people across many teams without needing a title to do it. The best part is leaving each situation stable and self-sufficient, with a durable improvement and a clear story behind it.
Needs
- building software
- debugging systems
- root cause analysis
- coordinating people
- writing documentation
- technical storytelling
Rewards
- visible impact
- durable solutions
- shipping fixes
- reusable patterns
Demands
- complex ambiguity
- high stakes
- cross-team coordination
- field firefighting
- tough stakeholders
Grows
- learning new domains
- quiet influence
- systems design
- technical narratives
- strategic thinking
Values
- engineering rigour
- craftsmanship
- remote working
- learning culture
- pragmatism
- user obsession
Drains
- big org navigation
- handoff discipline
- process overhead
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