Role at a glance
- Salary
- $180K – $300K/yr
- Location
- Foster City, California, United States NYC (SoHo), California, United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
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Role Summary
The Forward Deployed Engineer joins Replit’s FDE team to work directly with large organizations, building applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit from initial concepts through production deployment. The role focuses on architecting secure enterprise solutions, owning technical implementations, and translating customer insights into improvements for Replit’s platform and product teams.
What You'll Do
- Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit.
- Design secure, scalable architectures connecting Replit with customer systems, data, APIs, identity providers, and infrastructure.
- Integrate Replit with SSO, data warehouses, internal APIs, and SaaS systems.
- Own complex enterprise deployments by identifying blockers, debugging issues, and driving production adoption.
- Translate customer technical constraints and recurring needs into feedback for Replit’s product and engineering teams.
- Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements, and ship patterns back to the platform.
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Production software engineering experience; strong programming skills across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments; production experience with LLM applications, including retrieval, tool calls, and evals; experience designing and owning technical systems from architecture through production; ability to drive ambiguous technical projects; strong technical communication and customer or cross-functional stakeholder experience; ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
- Strong programming skills
- Experience working across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
- Hands-on experience with LLM applications in production, including retrieval, tool calls, and evals
- Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
- Strong technical communication skills
- Experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
Preferred
- Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, consulting, or another highly technical...
- Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, agents, or developer tools
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, application deployment, databases, APIs, authentication, and enterprise integration patterns
- Experience integrating software into complex enterprise environments, including identity and access management, internal data sources,...
Original job description
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Original job description
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
About the role:
Join our FDE team and work directly with some of the world's largest organizations to turn their most ambitious ideas into production applications on Replit. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll partner closely with customers to understand their technical and business needs, architect solutions, and build the integrations and applications required to deploy Replit successfully within complex enterprise environments.
This is a deeply technical and hands-on role. You won’t just advise customers on what to build—you’ll build alongside them. You’ll take applications from initial idea and prototype through deployment and production, navigate complex enterprise environments, and solve the technical challenges that emerge when AI-powered software development meets real-world infrastructure, data, security, and organizational constraints.
You will:
Build with Customers: Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build high-impact applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial concept through production deployment.
Architect Enterprise Solutions: Design secure, scalable architectures that connect Replit with customers’ existing systems, data, APIs, identity providers, and infrastructure.
Integrate with the customer's stack: SSO, data warehouses, internal APIs, and SaaS systems.
Own Technical Deployments: Serve as the technical owner for complex enterprise implementations, identifying blockers, debugging issues, and driving projects through to successful production adoption.
Bridge Customers and Product: Develop a deep understanding of how enterprises use Replit and translate field insights, technical constraints, and recurring customer needs into actionable feedback for Replit’s product and engineering teams.
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences
Ship quickly and iterate based on customer feedback and usage data
Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements. Ship the best patterns back to the platform.
Required skills and experience:
5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals.
Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
Ability to translate business requirements and customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, consulting, or another highly technical customer-facing role
Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, agents, or developer tools
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, application deployment, databases, APIs, authentication, and enterprise integration patterns
Experience integrating software into complex enterprise environments, including identity and access management, internal data sources, APIs, and existing developer infrastructure
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:
💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)
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Interviewing + Culture at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
About the company
Replit
Startup
Replit is an innovative online platform designed to simplify coding and programming for individuals and teams. Offering a collaborative environment, it allows users to write, test, and share code in various programming languages directly from their web browser. With features such as integrated development environments (IDEs), real-time collaboration tools, and extensive community support, Replit aims to make coding accessible to everyone, from beginners to experienced developers. The platform fosters creativity and learning, empowering users to build and deploy projects seamlessly.
Replit is an innovative online platform designed to simplify coding and programming for individuals and teams. Offering a collaborative environment, it allows users to write, test, and share code in various programming languages directly from their web browser. With features such as integrated development environments (IDEs), real-time collaboration tools, and extensive community support, Replit aims to make coding accessible to everyone, from beginners to experienced developers. The platform fosters creativity and learning, empowering users to build and deploy projects seamlessly.