Forward Deployed Engineer
Blockstream · Menlo Park
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**Forward Deployed Engineer — Blockstream** Blockstream (founded in 2014) is a market leader in Bitcoin security and Layer-2 technologies. We’re seeking a **Forward Deployed Engineer** embedded directly inside customer engineering teams—**writing code**, building tooling/integrations/configurations, and shipping improvements back into the core product. > **Note:** This is **not** a traditional configuration or support role. You’ll work closely with customer engineering, operations, and technology teams (often onsite) to deliver production-ready solutions. --- ## What You’ll Be Doing ### Customer Delivery & Implementation - **AI-first prototyping:** Use AI-assisted development to stand up MVPs/proof-of-concepts quickly, then harden winning prototypes into reusable, use-case playbooks. - **Tech pre-sales:** Support Enterprise Sales with technical pre-sales, RFP/RFI, and security questionnaire responses; help with SOW scoping, effort estimation, and scope-change management. - **Delivery ownership:** Own technical delivery from kickoff through production deployment and post-launch support. - **Financial institutions:** Work directly with banks to understand business processes, operational workflows, and technical environments. - **Configure & deploy:** Configure, deploy, and optimize Blockstream products based on customer requirements and approved solution designs. - **Implementation success criteria:** Plan implementation, run testing and **UAT**, manage production deployment, and provide post-go-live support. - **Enablement:** Deliver admin and end-user enablement sessions to drive adoption. - **Enterprise integration:** Integrate with core banking and capital-markets systems. ### Engineering & Technical Delivery - **Controlled environments:** Deploy into on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped environments under formal change control, producing security/audit evidence for compliance and pen-test reviews. - **Design integrations:** Build integrations between Blockstream enterprise products and customer systems using required interfaces and data pipeline technologies. - **Troubleshoot:** Resolve complex technical, configuration, and integration challenges across the lifecycle. - **Secure, scalable deployments:** Partner with customer engineering to ensure production-ready outcomes. - **Reusable assets:** Create deployment assets, implementation playbooks, technical documentation, and best practices. - **Product feedback loop:** Collaborate with Engineering to resolve product issues and improve implementation quality. ### Customer Collaboration - Embed with customer teams to understand operating environments and technical challenges. - Facilitate technical workshops, architecture discussions, and implementation planning. - Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the engagement. - Build relationships across Technology, Operations, Security, and Engineering. ### Digital Assets Product Improvement Feedback Loop - Turn implementation learnings and customer feedback into code. - Identify repeatable deployment patterns and help standardize methodologies. - Partner with Product Management and Engineering to shape the roadmap based on real deployments. - Improve deployment frameworks to accelerate customer time-to-production. --- ## What We Look for In You (Required) - **4–8 years** experience in software engineering / forward deployed engineering / solutions engineering / professional services / technical consulting / implem
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