Forward Deployed Engineer needed at Antimetal in NYC. Must excel in AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability tools. Strong communicator, previous founder or founding engineer preferred. Fullstack experience in high-growth startups. Responsibilities: 50% product shipping, 40% onboarding, 20% customer comms. On-site, visa sponsorship available. Salary: $180k-$220k.

We believe the real challenge in software is no longer writing code—it’s maintaining it. That’s why we’re focused on automating everything that happens after you deploy, so teams can spend less time on maintenance and more time building.

Antimetal

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the customer implementation
experience for Antimetal. You'll work directly with engineering teams at our
early customers to turn pilots into production-ready deployments and ensure they
get meaningful value from our platform.



This role combines technical problem-solving with customer partnership. You'll
be the bridge between our product and the complex infrastructure environments
where it needs to perform. 



What you'll do:

 * Work hands-on with customers to implement and deploy Antimetal in their
   environments

 * Serve as the primary technical contact for customers during their onboarding
   and early adoption

 * Troubleshoot integration issues across cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and
   deployment workflows

 * Build solutions for edge cases and unexpected configurations you encounter in
   the field

 * Feed customer feedback back to our product team, and work with them to build
   new features

 * Write internal tools and build features that make onboarding and integration
   better 

Shreyas Iyer

default plan

Intro call with co-founder 

Optional - Leveling Interview

To see how you work and meet the team

Onsite 

With the other co-founder or team member

Technical Interview

App Review

Ops Initial Screen

Forward Deployed Engineer

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the customer implementation experience for Antimetal. You'll work directly with engineering teams at our early customers to turn pilots into production-ready deployments and ensure they get meaningful value from our platform.This role combines technical problem-solving with customer partnership. You'll be the bridge between our product and the complex infrastructure environments where it needs to perform.&nbsp;What you'll do:<ul><li>Work hands-on with customers to implement and deploy Antimetal in their environments</li><li>Serve as the primary technical contact for customers during their onboarding and early adoption</li><li>Troubleshoot integration issues across cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and deployment workflows</li><li>Build solutions for edge cases and unexpected configurations you encounter in the field</li><li>Feed customer feedback back to our product team, and work with them to build new features</li><li>Write internal tools and build features that make onboarding and integration better&nbsp;</li></ul>

Fullstack engineer experience at a high-growth, reputable startup (early stage or mid-size)

Strong experience with modern infrastructure: AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability tools

You’ve shipped production code and worked in complex technical environments

Hands-on implementation for large, enterprise clients (Fortune 500)

Strong communication skills and the ability to take ownership of customer success

Located or willing to located to NYC (5 days in-office)

Front-end leaning: we need someone with more familiarity of backend

Here's a summary of key insights for evaluating Forward Deployed Engineer applicants:

* **Experience Level & Pedigree:**
 * Prioritize candidates with 3+ years of experience.
 * Look for a signal of excellence: top schools (e.g., MIT, Yale) or reputable, high-growth startups.
 * Avoid candidates with multiple short (<1 year) job stints.

* **Role Focus & Technical Depth:**
 * This role is 50% shipping product (PRs, bug fixes), 40% building/managing onboarding workflows, and 20% customer communication.
 * Candidates need to be more technical than typical Solutions Engineers, capable of contributing code.
 * Strong backend-leaning full-stack SWE experience is ideal.
 * Prioritize candidates who have shipped production code in complex environments.

* **Customer-Facing Skills:**
 * Crucial to have direct customer-facing implementation experience.
 * Look for individuals who can act as the primary technical contact for customers during onboarding.
 * Candidates should demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to take ownership of customer success.

* **Key Skills & Backgrounds:**
 * **Must-haves:** Modern infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability), strong communication, shipping production code, backend-leaning full-stack experience.
 * **Ideal profiles:** Former founders, founding engineers, or full-stack SWEs who can communicate effectively.
 * **Avoid:** Front-end leaning candidates, those with only off-the-shelf SaaS experience with little custom work.

* **Success Factors:**
 * Demonstrated ability to handle complex technical environments and troubleshoot integration issues.
 * Experience building solutions for edge cases and feeding customer feedback to product teams.
 * Proven track record of driving customer value and successful implementations.

* **Failure Factors:**
 * Lack of direct customer-facing experience.
 * Experience primarily in environments with established products and processes, rather than building from 0 to 1.
 * Being too junior or primarily an engineer who occasionally interacts with customers.

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