# Forward Deployed Engineer - Western US at Redpanda

- Company: Redpanda
- What the company does: Redpanda powers an Agentic Data Plane and Data Streaming platform for real-time performance, AI innovation, and simplified operations. Backed by Lightspeed and GV.
- Company website: https://redpanda.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, California - Hybrid
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $194K to $229K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/redpanda-data/578668b4-4e0d-4896-9b5b-924bf1b9a035
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/redpanda-forward-deployed-engineer-western-us/

## About the role

Redpanda is building the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) — the streaming and data infrastructure the world’s largest enterprises run mission-critical agents on. The enterprises winning right now are building agents that encode their own business logic, their own data, their own institutional knowledge into production-grade infrastructure. That’s digital sovereignty, and Redpanda ADP is the infrastructure layer that makes it real.

## What they're looking for

- Overall Experience. You have 6-10+ years of professional experience in a combination of software engineering and customer facing technical roles
- Agent and integration experience. You’ve built agents, worked with LLM APIs, or built integrations between complex systems. You know what makes an agent reliable vs. brittle, and you’ve made that call in production
- Ability to operate in any environment. You’ve worked in someone else’s codebase, with constraints you didn’t set, in a stack you didn’t choose. You can read unfamiliar code, understand what it does, and extend it without breaking it
- Customer-facing communication. You can work directly with a customer’s engineering team — their leads, their architects, their individual contributors — and be a credible, trusted technical partner. You don’t need a PM to translate for you
- Shipped at a customer site or in a deployment context. You’ve personally been in the room when something hard went live. You know the difference between a demo and a production deployment

Tags: Customer Success