Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer serving as technical lead for enterprise customers in APAC. Building deployment strategies and mentoring engineers to ensure AI initiatives succeed.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the technical lead for APAC and help build the region
  • Embed with enterprise customers, taking them from first evaluation to production deployment
  • Own how Stacklok lands with every customer in the region
  • Shape technical direction across APAC, establish deployment patterns, and mentor engineers
  • Solve problems determining whether AI initiatives successfully reach production
  • Adapt forward deployed work to how local customers operate

Requirements:

  • Extensive experience serving as the senior or lead engineer in enterprise customer engagements
  • Proven technical leadership through technical direction, mentorship, and stewardship of high-quality engineering practices
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise across cluster architecture, networking, storage, RBAC, and permission models
  • Proven experience deploying into managed Kubernetes and the cloud infrastructure it meets (IAM, networking, storage)
  • Strong observability expertise across metrics, logs, and traces
  • Hands-on experience building or running MCP servers or AI agent tooling
  • AI-first mindset
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Startup mentality and strong ownership

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO and paid holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible, hybrid-or-remote work environment
  • Team offsites in unique destinations