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Forward Deployed Engineer

Cybersecurity company

  • LocationSan Francisco, California
  • TypeFull-time
  • Posted19 September 2026

The role, as published

About the company

Our client is a cybersecurity company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own technical delivery and communication for important customers, spending roughly 60% of your time coding and 40% in direct customer work.

What you'll do

  • Triage customer questions, bug reports, and feature requests.
  • Ship fixes and incremental improvements into production.
  • Develop deep product and backend knowledge to guide customer decisions.
  • Run discovery on customer needs and return improvements to the core product.
  • Support technical demonstrations, customer engagements, and industry events.

What we're looking for

  • 2 to 5 years of relevant full-stack engineering experience.
  • Experience building a product from an early stage.
  • Ability to write and ship production code and make improvements from customer feedback.
  • A computer science or closely related technical degree.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript, React, or Python.
  • Strong customer communication and independent ownership of ambiguous work.

Bonus points

  • Previous forward deployed engineering experience.
  • Demonstrable software delivery alongside a consulting background.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k), commuting support, and office lunch and dinner.
  • Relocation support.

Location and work model

  • Five days per week onsite in San Francisco, with up to 25% travel. The role expects fast customer responses from 7 AM to 7 PM Pacific time and prompt acknowledgment of urgent requests outside those hours.

Compensation, as the posting describes it

  • Equity: 0.08-0.2%.

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