Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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🕒 April 30

🏄 California, Illinois, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $200k - $315k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Vista Equity Partners

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Finance • Enterprise

Vista Equity Partners is a leading investment firm that focuses on software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. The firm employs a long-term investment strategy, aiming to create value through operational improvements and strategic growth. Vista is recognized for its expertise in helping portfolio companies enhance their operations and drive innovation in their respective markets.

📋 Description

• Embed with company engineering teams for focused 8 to 24 week engagements • Own delivery end to end • Work inside their repos, CI/CD, security review, and code standards • Leave behind systems their teams can operate, extend, and trust • Build advanced CodeGen and agentic workflows including custom subagents, skills, MCP servers, eval harnesses, background agents, and PR review automation • Implement evals, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints sized to risk • Pair program and prompt alongside their engineers as a teaching mechanism • Partner with engineering leadership to scope high-leverage opportunities with clear business metrics and acceptance criteria • Contribute patterns, accelerators, and reference implementations back to Vista's shared FDE and AI Ops playbooks for reuse across the portfolio

🎯 Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of production software engineering experience • 3+ years of sustained, daily use of frontier AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or equivalent) on production work • Demonstrated success driving AI or automation transformation at the enterprise level • Comfort ramping quickly across languages and stacks (Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, and others) • Cloud infrastructure depth on AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus containerization, CI/CD, and observability • Prior FDE, embedded solutions engineering, technical consulting, staff product engineering, or early-stage startup engineering experience • Willingness to travel 35% to 50%.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package • Annual cash bonus