Forward Deployed Engineer

Sola Security

22d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of our product, our engineering team, and our most strategic customers. You'll embed directly with customers - often security operations centers, SOCs, and enterprise security teams - to deploy, configure, and extend our AI-powered cybersecurity platform against their real environments and real threats. FDEs write production code, build custom integrations and detections, and turn ambiguous customer problems into shipped solutions - often in days, not quarters. You'll be the technical bridge between what customers actually need and what our product does, and you'll feed those learnings back into our roadmap.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, security engineer, or similar hands-on technical role
• Strong coding ability in at least one of: Python, Go, or similar - able to build real, production-quality software quickly
• Comfort operating with ambiguity - you can walk into an unfamiliar environment and figure out what "done" looks like
• Background or strong working knowledge of security concepts: SIEM/SOAR, EDR, network telemetry, log analysis, threat detection, or incident response
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Excellent communication skills - you can explain technical tradeoffs to both engineers and security analysts/executives
• A bias toward action: you'd rather ship a working solution today than a perfect one next quarter
• Willingness to travel and work directly with customers, sometimes during active incidents

Responsibilities

• Embed on-site or virtually with customers to understand their environment, data sources, and threat models
• Build custom integrations, data pipelines, detection logic, and workflows on top of our core platform to solve customer-specific problems
• Own technical deployments end-to-end: architecture, implementation, validation, and handoff
• Debug and resolve complex issues across the stack - from data ingestion to model behavior to UI - often under time pressure during live incidents
• Translate messy, ambiguous customer requirements into scoped technical solutions
• Act as the voice of the customer internally, feeding structured feedback to Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap
• Write internal tooling, scripts, and reusable modules that make future deployments faster

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed