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Forward Deployed Engineer

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Switzerland

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you work directly with customer engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure and developer workflow challenges on the Namespace platform.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, infrastructure setups, and technical challenges
  • Quickly build an understanding of new technical environments and independently drive issues from investigation to resolution
  • Reverse engineer customer systems and resolve issues across CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, build systems, and application environments
  • Build product improvements, tooling, integrations, and fixes that unblock customer teams
  • Identify recurring patterns across customer engagements and collaborate with product and engineering to turn them into platform improvements

Requirements

  • Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to navigate unfamiliar systems quickly
  • Comfort debugging across modern infrastructure, developer tooling, and application environments
  • High curiosity and a systematic approach to problem-solving
  • Strong communication skills, able to work directly with technical teams and users
  • Bias toward execution and comfort in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Customer-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership and urgency

Soft skills

Grit and comfort with ambiguityCuriosity and systematic thinkingStrong communication and trust-building with customers

What we offer

  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Flexible working hours
  • Market-leading parental leave

About the company

Namespace Labs builds a developer infrastructure platform that dramatically speeds up CI runs, builds, and tests. They serve a global customer base across the US, EU, Asia, and Australia, working primarily async via Slack and email.

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