# Forward Deployed Engineer at Bitmovin

- Company: Bitmovin
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://bitmovin.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://bitmovin.com/careers/8640623002?gh_jid=8640623002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bitmovin-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

At Bitmovin , we’re redefining how the world streams video. Our Emmy award-winning technology powers video for household names like Red Bull Media House, RTL, and Technicolor — and we’re just getting started. This is the first Forward Deployed Engineer at Bitmovin — a greenfield role where you'll define the playbook, not inherit one.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience at a senior level, strong in Java or C++, able to contribute production code in the encoding team's sprints
- 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role (solutions architecture, professional services, forward deployed, or named-account support)
- Cloud experience (AWS and/or GCP), Docker, and hands-on experience running and debugging scalable distributed services
- Strong troubleshooting on live customer systems: log analysis, error diagnosis, network traces, reproducing issues from limited information
- Open to AI-assisted development workflows and comfortable using AI tools like Claude Code
- Excellent written and verbal English, with a track record of communicating credibly with enterprise engineering teams

Tags: Encoding