# Staff Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed
**Company:** [Foxglove](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/foxglove)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $220K-$240K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, C++, ROS, Node.js, TypeScript, React, SQL, AWS, GCP, Azure
**Posted:** 2025-12-10
> Forward-deployed engineer collaborates with robotics customers to integrate and extend observability platform, building solutions using Python, C++, ROS, and web technologies. Requires 5+ years experience in core languages and 3+ years in robotics/autonomous systems.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities
- **Customer Collaboration** – Embed deeply with customer teams to understand business goals, domain constraints, and technical requirements.
- **Design & Development** – Architect and build end-to-end solutions with an experiment-driven, iterative approach (TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL).
- **Scoping & Planning** – Draft clear scopes of work, timelines, and success metrics for proofs-of-concept through production roll-outs.
- **Hands-On Delivery** – Code side-by-side with customer engineers, deploying on their cloud or on-prem environments to ensure successful adoption.
- **Cross-Functional Alignment** – Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success on the same accounts to guarantee seamless experiences and measurable outcomes.
- **Product Feedback Loop** – Relay frontline insights to Research, Product, and Engineering; your learnings shape our roadmap.
- **Internal Enablement** – Document best practices, contribute to internal libraries, and mentor future FDEs so the function scales efficiently.

## What we're looking for
- 5+ years of professional experience in Python, C++, ROS, and Node.js
- 3+ years of professional experience in Robotics or Autonomous systems
- Experience in customer-facing engineering roles, ideally with robotics or autonomy exposure.
- Proven history of rapid prototyping and iterative delivery with external stakeholders.
- Solid grasp of network and cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and database-backed REST APIs.
- Comfortable owning problems end-to-end, learning what’s missing, and communicating technical details to any audience.
- Willingness to travel extensively and work on-site with customers when required.

**Bonus points:**
- Experience with multiple database systems
- Experience designing SDKs, integration libraries, or internal tooling that reduced services cycle time.

## What We Offer
- $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)
- Competitive equity grant in a Series B company
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents
- 401(k) matching up to 4%
- 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
- All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2× per year
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