# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (L5)

**Company:** [Symmetry Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/symmetry-systems)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Go, TypeScript, IAM, Kubernetes, APIs, Cloud Security
**Posted:** 2026-02-10

> Lead customer deployments and pilots for data security platform, designing secure integrations across AWS, Azure, GCP and translating risks into remediation plans. Partner with sales on technical workshops requiring strong coding, debugging and cloud fluency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own outcomes for high stakes customer engagements.
- Lead technical discovery to map customer’s data and identity reality, including key data stores, flows, access patterns, and risk hotspots.
- Drive successful pilots and proofs of concept from blank slate to measurable value.
- Design and implement secure deployments across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, including **AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**, and on premise patterns.
- Integrate Symmetry into customer ecosystems such as identity systems, data platforms, and security tooling.
- Translate data security posture and identity risk signals into prioritized remediation plans.
- Partner with Sales to run technical workshops, threat and risk reviews, and architecture sessions.

## Qualifications
- 1-5+ years of experience in roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, hands-on Sales Engineer, Customer Engineer, Security Engineer, or similar, with deep technical delivery.
- Ability to lead technical engagements with enterprise customers across security, data, platform, and executive stakeholders.
- Fluency across **AWS**, **Azure**, and **GCP**, including IAM concepts, networking fundamentals, logging and audit patterns, and deploying production grade services.
- Comfort working with modern data ecosystems and data sprawl across warehouses, lakes, object stores, and SaaS platforms.
- Strong debugging and systems thinking skills.
- Ability to write code or scripts in **Python**, **Go**, or **TypeScript**, and reason about APIs and integrations.
- Ability to set direction in ambiguous situations and keep teams aligned.

## Nice to Haves
- Experience in data security, DSPM, cloud security posture management, identity governance, or Zero Trust initiatives.
- Familiarity with security operations workflows such as alerting, investigations, audit evidence generation, and incident response.
- Track record of building repeatable deployment playbooks or scalable post sales motions.

## Perks and Benefits
- Flexible Work.
- Equipment and Software expense policy.
- Training and Growth opportunities.
- Recognition through blog features, product showcases, and conference talks.
- Cutting-Edge Work in generative AI and ML applications within data security.

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