Forward Deployed Engineer

Droit•New York, NY

35d•$175,000 - $200,000

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer you will work closely with Droit’s Technology team to design, develop, implement and deploy software and infrastructure. This role will also partner closely with our Business Development and Client Success teams, embedding with customers to understand their domain and co-develop solutions. We are looking for someone who can understand technical, business, and client requirements to deliver software and solutions efficiently. You have experience developing, deploying and supporting software for large institutions. You are exceptional at approaching problems pragmatically. You thrive on helping clients succeed.

Requirements

Experience shipping code in at least one high level language and writing tools in at least one scripting language.
Competence with at least one modern CI/CD system, experience with alternatives.
Strong Linux experience.
At least 5 years of experience shipping products and solutions for distributed Platform-as-a-Service offerings.
Experience operating, optimizing, maintaining and monitoring k8s clusters as a platform.
Extensive experience with at least one IAC tool, and with GitOps tooling.
Extensive experience with the core AWS service offerings (professional certs a plus).
Experience developing robust infrastructure, launching a new tech stack, and supporting business critical applications in production.
Experience with modern product development processes - collaborating with developers, product owners and QA, to address latency, performance, HA/FT, deployment, upgrades, etc.
A strong desire to embed with customers, drive product decisions, and deliver excellent solutions to clients.

Responsibilities

Understand clients' goals and objectives and develop strategies to help them achieve those goals, including gathering feedback to inform further product development.
Work end-to-end across the entire development lifecycle from idea to deployment to measuring feature impact.
Evangelize Droit technology amongst clients and internal stakeholders, prepare materials, POCs and demonstrate value, benefits and solutions. Develop deep insight and understanding of the audience, and what problems are important.
Commit to learning the Droit application stack, and some of the business domain, to have a good understanding of what drives value for our clients. Reflect on client feedback and communicate nuance and details effectively.
Work on client integrations, support Droit stakeholders, get feedback from clients and develop strategic solutions with your colleagues.
Support infrastructure, improve incident detection, deploy new services, and improve operational maturity.
Create architecture artifacts and reusable solution patterns (logical architecture diagrams, workflows, data flow diagrams, presentations, etc.) effectively communicating solutions to varied audiences.
Ensure solutions meet policies and requirements for technical standards, security, operation, and support.
Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals, both internally and with clients.
Define and standardize processes and tooling across multiple projects.

Benefits

Competitive compensation, including retirement benefits.
Holistic benefits for you and your family to support your physical and mental health.
A commitment to growth through continuous feedback and experiences.
The opportunity to work in close-knit, global teams.
Flexibility for where you work and purpose for when we come together in person.

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