Forward Deployed Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Replit. Foster City · full-time · $180,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build applications and AI workflows with enterprise customers, carrying projects from early concepts into production
- Connect Replit to customer systems, including data stores, APIs, identity services, and infrastructure
- Take charge of complex deployments by clearing technical blockers, debugging issues, and driving adoption
- Bring customer patterns and technical needs to product and engineering teams, then turn repeatable solutions into templates and playbooks
What you bring
- At least five years building and deploying production software as a software engineer
- Production experience with LLM applications, including retrieval, tool use, and evaluation
- A record of designing technical systems from architecture through production and independently completing projects in uncertain settings
- Strong coding ability, plus experience explaining technical work and working directly with customers or other stakeholders
Who this fits
This mid-level, hands-on engineering role suits someone who wants to build alongside enterprise customers, not only advise them. The work is based in Foster City and is hybrid.
From the employer
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
About the role:
Join our FDE team and work directly with some of the world's largest organizations to turn their most ambitious ideas into production applications on Replit. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll partner closely with customers to understand their technical and business needs, architect solutions, and build the integrations and applications required to deploy Replit successfully within complex enterprise environments.
This is a deeply technical and hands-on role. You won’t just advise customers on what to build—you’ll build alongside them. You’ll take applications from initial idea and prototype through deployment and production, navigate complex enterprise environments, and solve the technical challenges that emerge when AI-powered software development meets real-world infrastructure, data, security, and organizational constraints.
You will:
Build with Customers: Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build high-impact applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial concept through production deployment.
Architect Enterprise Solutions: Design secure, scalable architectures that connect Replit with customers’ existing systems, data, APIs, identity providers, and infrastructure.
Integrate with the customer's stack: SSO, data warehouses, internal APIs, and SaaS systems.
Own Technical Deployments: Serve as the technical owner for complex enterprise implementations, identifying blockers, debugging issues, and driving projects through to successful production adoption.
Bridge Customers and Product: Develop a deep understanding of how enterprises use Replit and translate field insights, technical constraints, and recurring customer needs into actionable feedback for Replit’s product and engineering teams.
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences
Ship quickly and iterate based on customer feedback and usage data
Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements. Ship the best patterns back to the platform.
Required skills and experience:
5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals.
Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
Ability to translate business requirements and customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, consulting, or another highly technical customer-facing role
Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, agents, or developer tools
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, application deployment, databases, APIs, authentication, and enterprise integration patterns
Experience integrating software into complex enterprise environments, including identity and access management, internal data sources, APIs, and existing developer infrastructure
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:
💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)
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Interviewing + Culture at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
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