Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — EMEA Remote

Cross Border Talents
London

Remote ( EMEA)

$100000 $150000 equity
Full-time Senior Foundational Role

About the Role

Our client is building a modern platform for software supply chain security enabling organizations to gather secure and contextualize all SDLC data across their environments.

They are hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer a rare high-impact role at the intersection of engineering product and customer success . This is not a traditional Solutions Architect position. You will code daily work directly with strategic enterprise customers and shape both the product direction and this function itself .

As a founding member of this role youll help define how the company partners with its most demanding customers often Fortune 500 financial institutions and highly regulated organizations .

What Youll Do

  • Write production code daily primarily in Go

  • Build fast proofs of concept (POCs) and production-ready integrations

  • Implement complex CI/CD Kubernetes GitOps and observability workflows
  • Work hands-on inside customer environments to deploy and refine solutions
  • Act as the technical bridge between customers and core engineering

  • Identify patterns risks and opportunities early before they escalate

  • Feed real-world insights back into product strategy and roadmap

What Were Looking For

  • 5 years as a Senior / Staff Engineer Architect or equivalent

  • Strong hands-on coding experience (Go strongly preferred)

  • Experience supporting enterprise customers (Fortune 500 finance government)
  • Deep practical understanding of modern software supply chains

  • Experience with POCs integrations and production systems

  • Familiarity with CI/CD Kubernetes GitOps and observability tooling

  • Excellent synchronous and asynchronous communication skills

  • Calm pragmatic and effective under pressure

  • Genuine interest in supply chain security and open-source ecosystems

How Youll Work

  • Builder-first mindset: you dont just suggest solutions you implement them
  • High ownership high trust and minimal bureaucracy

  • Pragmatism over perfection

  • Comfortable shifting context quickly to support global customers

  • Willing to jump on a call when it matters

What This Role Is Not

  • Not a slideware or advisory-only role

  • Not a feature-request handoff position

  • Not a place to hide behind async communication during critical moments

Why Join

  • Foundational role with real influence on product customers and culture
  • Direct exposure to complex real-world enterprise environments

  • Opportunity to shape how a next-generation security platform is adopted at scale
  • Competitive compensation with meaningful equity upside

  • Remote-first setup across EMEA

Apply now if you want to build ship and deploy real systems and help define what forward deployed engineering looks like from day one...

Posted 2026-02-06

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