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Forward Deployed Engineer

depthfirst · San Francisco · On-site

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About depthfirst

AI-native security that thinks like an elite security research team and works across your code, dependencies, infrastructure, and live environment. Backed by Accel.

About the role

We’re looking for a Forward-Deployed Engineer to help enterprise customers deploy and operate depthfirst in their environments. You’ll work directly with their security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to understand their architecture, navigate technical requirements, and own delivery from initial discovery through production readiness. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience building and operating production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a similar role
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes, including deploying, debugging, and operating applications in production
  • A solid understanding of networking and cloud security fundamentals, including private connectivity, DNS, TLS, IAM, and access controls
  • Ability to investigate problems across infrastructure and application boundaries, identify root causes, and implement fixes
  • Proficiency in a language such as Go or Python, with experience shipping production code and automation
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability
More about this role

We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization. Yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience. We are on a mission to secure the world's software.

depthfirst is building intelligence to detect and remediate critical software vulnerabilities. We are training and scaling security AI agents to discover zero-days vulnerabilities across large customer codebases and popular open source software.

Our founding team includes deep expertise in data, infrastructure, security and LLMs with technical leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, Square, and Faire. We are looking for strong technical people who are interested in working at the intersection of AI, Security, and Infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Forward-Deployed Engineer to help enterprise customers deploy and operate depthfirst in their environments. You’ll work directly with their security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to understand their architecture, navigate technical requirements, and own delivery from initial discovery through production readiness.

You’ll design deployment architectures, troubleshoot complex systems, and write production code to unblock customers. Each environment brings...

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