Staff Forward Deployed Engineer – Kubernetes

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $216k - $264k / year

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Stacklok

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11 - 50 employees

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Series A on 2023-05

Security • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Stacklok is a security platform dedicated to securing the software supply chain and mitigating risks across the software development lifecycle. The company provides solutions to secure open source dependencies, source code repositories, build environments, and build artifacts, ensuring strong security practices are in place and continuously enforced. Stacklok offers a suite of tools including Trusty, a web app for assessing the supply chain risk of open source packages, and Minder, a platform for enforcing supply chain security. The company also integrates with existing developer workflows to facilitate seamless adoption of security measures, helping developers and security teams collaborate effectively to prevent threats and ensure integrity in software development processes.

📋 Description

• Serve as a technical lead for the US-East and EMEA region, embedding with enterprise customers, taking them from first evaluation to production deployment, and answering technical questions. • Shape technical direction, establish deployment patterns, and mentor engineers across the team. • Work on complex Kubernetes deployments and solve problems related to AI initiatives reaching production. • Design and deliver changes to how the platform deploys to Kubernetes, unblocking enterprise adoption and contributing those changes upstream. • Define reference architectures and deployment patterns that engagements build on. • Mentor engineers through design reviews and serve as a technical gate for hiring.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: writes well-structured production code with sound design and testing judgment. • Extensive experience serving as the senior or lead engineer in enterprise customer engagements, with a proven ability to lead hands-on customer delivery in the field. • Proven technical leadership through technical direction, mentorship, and stewardship of high-quality engineering practices. • Deep Kubernetes expertise across cluster architecture, networking, storage, RBAC, and permission models, with operator and CRD literacy, Go controllers, Helm authoring, and GitOps via Flux or ArgoCD. • Strong observability expertise across metrics, logs, and traces, with the ability to instrument, troubleshoot, and debug production systems using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Grafana. • Hands-on experience building or running MCP servers or AI agent tooling, ideally in production environments. • AI-first mindset: an active user of AI coding assistants who brings agentic workflows into daily work and experiments with AI to automate and accelerate delivery. • Communication: excellent written and verbal communication, able to explain complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Startup mentality and strong ownership: self-directed and hands-on, comfortable building where no playbook exists yet, and driving clarity through action rather than waiting for it.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible PTO and paid holidays • Paid parental leave • Flexible, hybrid-or-remote work environment • Team offsites in unique destinations