Forward Deployed Engineer – US

$194K–$229K streaming infraremoteagentic data

Remote (US) · Posted August 6, 2026

Why it's interesting

The Kafka-alternative streaming vendor stood up a full FDE org — 'the delivery arm,' reporting to a Head of FDE — to embed builders inside customer codebases on its new Agentic Data Plane. $194K–$229K base, 30–50% travel, and a JD that explicitly benchmarks itself against Palantir FDSE, OpenAI Deployed Engineer and Sierra: infra vendors now copy the labs' field model wholesale.

The role

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding on-site with strategic customers to write production agents, integrations and data pipelines on Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane (ADP) — inside the customer's own environment and codebase, built for clean handoff. Remote-first US; reports to the Head of FDE; 30–50% travel during active engagements. Bonus for streaming/real-time systems (Kafka/Flink) and regulated or air-gapped environments. Sourced via LinkedIn (2026-08 snapshot); verified live on Redpanda's Ashby board.

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