Forward Deployed Engineer
红 panda 是代理数据互动的首个运行时间和控制平面。它结合了流媒体，SQL 分析和智能连接，与企业人工智能代理商需要生产的管理层._ _基于富士通500公司和快速增长的初创公司已经信任的基础设施，Redpanda 完全执行管理在代理数据路径之外，控制代理人看到的内容，限制他们所做的行为，并捕获他们接触的一切东西的防记录，因此组织永远不必选择创新和控制之间._ **关于角色：** 红班达正在构建 Agentic Data Plan (ADP) 流媒体和数据基础设施 世界最大的企业运行任务关键代理。目前获胜的企业是建立代码自己的商业逻辑，自己的数据，自己的机构知识进入生产级基础设施的代理人。这是数字主权，Redpanda ADP 是使其成为现实的基础设施层。前进部署工程 (FDE) 是交付臂。我们直接与战略客户嵌入工程师并建造将 ADP 转化为拥有结果的代理人和集成。作为前进部份工程师，你是建设者：在本地内嵌入，在客户环境中工作，编写出发送的代码。这不是解决方案工程角色。你不在这里演示或咨询。你在这里建造代理人，集成，数据管道和运行它们的基础设施与客户团队一起，在他们的环境中，在时间线上。**你会：** - **在客户网站建立.** 写生产质量的代理人，整合和数据管道 Redpanda ADP 上，在客戶环境和代码库内。你发送的东西必须在离开后工作。- ** 在未熟悉的领土上工作，快速.* * 每个客户参与都是新的代码库，一个新的数据环境，一套新的限制。快速走进，以现有的方向发展，在不破坏的情况下建立其顶部。- **拥有技术成果.**了解参与所需的产品，设计技术方法，构建它，并将其交给清洁记录，可维护和运行生产中。- **与客户工程师一起工作***** 每天与他们的团队合作。赢得他们的信任。确保工作正确地与他们已经拥有的东西相结合，以及你离开后他们将保持什么。- **Drive t
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_Redpanda is the first runtime and control plane for agent-data interaction — a unified platform that combines streaming, SQL analytics, and intelligent connectivity with the governance layer enterprise AI agents need in production._
_Built on infrastructure already trusted by Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing startups, Redpanda enforces governance entirely outside the agent's data path, controlling what agents see, limiting what they do, and capturing a tamper-proof record of everything they touch, so organizations never have to choose between innovation and control._
**About the Role:**
Redpanda is building the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) — the streaming and data infrastructure the world’s largest enterprises run mission-critical agents on. The enterprises winning right now are building agents that encode their own business logic, their own data, their own institutional knowledge into production-grade infrastructure. That’s digital sovereignty, and Redpanda ADP is the infrastructure layer that makes it real.
Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is the delivery arm. We embed engineers directly with strategic customers and build the agents and integrations that turn ADP into owned outcomes. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you are the builder: embedded on-site, working inside the customer’s environment, writing the code that ships.
This is not a solutions engineering role. You are not here to demo or advise. You are here to build — agents, integrations, data pipelines, and the infrastructure that runs them — alongside a customer team, in their environment, on their timeline.
**You Will:**
- **Build at the customer site.** Write production-quality agents, integrations, and data pipelines on Redpanda ADP, inside the customer’s environment and codebase. What you ship has to work after you leave.
- **Work in unfamiliar territory, fast.** Every customer engagement is a new codebase, a new data environment, a new set of constraints. Ramp quickly, orient to what exists, build on top of it without breaking it.
- **Own the technical deliverable.** Understand what the engagement is supposed to produce, design the technical approach, build it, and hand it off clean — documented, maintainable, and running in production.
- **Be the Redpanda technical voice with the customer’s engineers.** Work alongside their team daily. Earn their trust. Make sure the work integrates correctly with what they already have and what they’ll maintain after you leave.
- **Drive toward exit from day one.** Build with handoff in mind. Write documentation that their team can actually use. Train them on what you built. Don’t create dependencies on you.
- **Feed learnings back.** Identify patterns across engagements — what customers keep needing to build, where ADP makes things hard, what should be productized. Bring that back to Product and Engineering clearly.
**You Have:**
- **Overall Experience.** You have 6-10+ years of professional experience in a combination of software engineering and customer facing technical roles.
- **Engineering depth.** You write production software. You’ve built backend systems, data pipelines, APIs, or agent systems that ran in production and had real consequences when they broke. Language background is flexible; what matters is that you build things that work.
- **Agent and integration experience.** You’ve built agents, worked with LLM APIs, or built integrations between complex systems. You know what makes an agent reliable vs. brittle, and you’ve made that call in production.
- **Ability to operate in any environment.** You’ve worked in someone else’s codebase, with constraints you didn’t set, in a stack you didn’t choose. You can read unfamiliar code, understand what it does, and extend it without breaking it.
- **Customer-facing communication.** You can work directly with a customer’s engineering team — their leads, their architects, their individual contributors — and be a credible, trusted technical partner. You don’t need a PM to translate for you.
- **Shipped at a customer site or in a deployment context.** You’ve personally been in the room when something hard went live. You know the difference between a demo and a production deployment.
**Bonus:**
- Experience in a forward-deployed or customer-embedded engineering model — Anthropic FDE, OpenAI Deployed Engineer, Stripe FDE, Sierra, Palantir FDSE, or analogous.
- Background in streaming or real-time data systems (Kafka, Flink, Redpanda, or similar).
- Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector) or air-gapped environments.
- Have been the first or only technical person in a customer engagement — run it end-to-end without a playbook.
**How We Work:**
- **Reports to:** Director, Customer Engineering
- **Travel:** 30–50% during active engagements; lighter between engagements. You’ll be on-site when the build is live.
US Salary base range is $157,500-$185,000, not including bonus and/or commission. _Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process._
Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness. You'll dive into a nimble, high-impact team with the latest AI tools — and the budget to actually use them.