Forward Deployed Engineer

Join our mission. We accelerate the ability of companies to build their products by removing common bottlenecks such as waiting for CI, builds, and tests. After witnessing this pain at organizations of all sizes, we built a developer infrastructure platform that seamlessly integrates with existing workflows and dramatically speeds up builds.

At Namespace, Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with customer engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure and developer workflow challenges. You will serve as a technical partner and trusted advisor, embedding within a wide variety of organizations to understand how they build and ship software. You will navigate complex systems, troubleshoot technical issues, and translate real-world challenges into product and platform improvements.

This is a highly technical, autonomous, and customer‑facing role that spans CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, build systems, and application environments. Success depends on your ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar technologies, uncover high‑leverage opportunities for improvement, and drive both tactical fixes and longer‑term engineering outcomes.

We value grit and a bias toward execution. We look for people who push through ambiguity, take ownership, and keep moving forward. Curiosity, a deep understanding of how things work, and an eagerness to ship, learn, and iterate quickly are essential. If you care about building, moving fast, and making real impact, you will fit right in.

• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, infrastructure setups, operational and technical challenges
• Quickly develop an understanding of new technical environments and independently drive issues and improvement opportunities from investigation through resolution
• Reverse engineer customer systems and resolve issues spanning CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, build systems, and application environments
• Act as an extension of our customers’ engineering teams, helping them solve complex technical challenges and improve how they build and ship software
• Build product improvements, tooling, integrations, and fixes that unblock customer teams, improve developer productivity, and streamline software delivery workflows
• Identify recurring patterns across customer engagements and collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate them into platform improvements
• Drive adoption through deep technical partnership, helping customers expand Namespace across additional workflows, teams, and infrastructure use cases
• Develop deep expertise in modern developer workflows, infrastructure systems, and software delivery practices

• 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 and the ability to work directly with technical teams and users
• Bias toward execution and comfort operating in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments
• Customer‑oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership and urgency

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

• We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
• We balance our long‑term vision with short‑term pragmatism.
• We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.