Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Embed with Strategic Customers: Work directly alongside enterprise customers as a trusted technical partner, embedding within their organizations to understand business objectives, technical constraints, and organizational structure. Serve as the primary technical representative for complex implementations, building deep domain knowledge of each customer's infrastructure, goals, and challenges.
• Design & Build Production Applications: Lead the design and implementation of high-impact AI-powered applications and workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial conception and prototyping through production deployment. Write production-grade code, implement security best practices, and ensure applications meet enterprise reliability standards.
• Architect Enterprise-Scale Solutions: Design secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures that integrate Replit with customers' existing technology stacks. Create technical designs that account for data governance, security compliance, performance requirements, and operational complexity inherent in large organizations.
• Execute Complex Integrations: Build integrations connecting Replit with customers' enterprise systems, including SSO and identity providers, data warehouses and internal data sources, existing APIs and SaaS platforms, and internal developer infrastructure. Navigate authentication, authorization, and data sharing challenges unique to enterprise environments.
• Own Technical Deployments End-to-End: Serve as the technical owner throughout implementation, managing deployment planning, coordinating with customer infrastructure teams, identifying and resolving technical blockers, debugging production issues, and driving projects to successful adoption. Maintain accountability for meeting timelines and quality standards.
• Bridge Customer Insights & Product Development: Synthesize learnings from customer interactions into actionable insights for Replit's product and engineering teams. Identify recurring technical constraints, unmet customer needs, and feature gaps. Translate field patterns into documented playbooks, templates, and product requirements that improve the platform.
• Collaborate Across Functional Teams: Work closely with Replit's Product, Design, Engineering, and Sales teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences. Provide field feedback that influences product roadmap decisions, escalate technical blockers to internal engineering, and ensure customer needs inform platform development priorities.
• Iterate Based on Real-World Feedback: Demonstrate agility by shipping incremental improvements, gathering customer feedback, and adjusting implementations based on actual usage patterns. Monitor application performance, user adoption metrics, and technical health, optimizing based on data-driven insights.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and Equity

  Market-rate compensation package combining base salary with equity grants, providing ownership stakes in Replit's growth as an AI-powered development platform.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

  Company-sponsored retirement savings plan with 4% employer match on contributions for US-based employees, supporting long-term financial planning.

• Comprehensive Health Coverage

  Full medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits, plus life insurance coverage to protect employee and family wellbeing.

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

  Income protection programs providing coverage for periods of disability, ensuring financial security during unexpected health challenges.

• Paid Leave Benefits

  Generous paid parental leave, medical leave, and caregiver leave to support employees during major life events and family responsibilities.

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) and Holidays

  Flexible time off policy allowing employees to manage work-life balance with autonomy, plus coverage of standard US holidays.

• Commuter Benefits

  Pre-tax commuter benefits for public transportation and parking for in-office and US-based employees, reducing transportation costs.

• Monthly Wellness Stipend

  Monthly allowance for wellness activities, fitness memberships, mental health services, or other health and wellbeing initiatives of employee's choice.

• Autonomous Work Environment

  Culture of trust and autonomy with flexible work arrangements, emphasizing output and results over rigid schedules or micromanagement.

• In-Office Setup Reimbursement

  Company reimbursement for home office equipment, desk setup, and ergonomic accommodations for in-office employees.

• Quarterly Team Gatherings

  Regular all-hands and team in-person events for collaboration, culture building, and strengthening relationships across distributed teams.

• In-Office Amenities

  On-site amenities at Replit offices including coffee, snacks, collaboration spaces, and facilities designed to support productivity and employee experience.