Forward Deployed Engineer
Replit is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $180k-$300k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Replit.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this forward deployed engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Pay on this posting starts in line with the typical forward deployed engineer posting on Level.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions Python, TypeScript and Docker among its tools and skills.
- Replit has 51 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Partner with enterprise customers to architect, build, and deploy AI-powered applications on Replit.
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.
How we rate this
Forward Deployed Engineer at Replit rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $180k
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- Tell me about a project where full stack development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where enterprise architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where customer facing was part of your work. What did you do?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Full Stack Development, Enterprise Architecture, Customer Facing, AI agents, and Python. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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