Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Staff Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) sit at the intersection of enterprise customer environments and a fast-moving internal product. They are senior technical leaders who own ambiguous, high-impact problems that span customer engagements, product direction, and engineering execution. They are accountable not only for getting customers to production, but for using what is learned in the field to shape reusable product capabilities, technical strategy, and delivery quality across multiple teams.

This role is best suited for engineers who want to combine hands-on technical depth with broad influence: defining or changing strategy when customer reality reveals a gap, guiding technical decisions across teams, and translating field insight into durable product and engineering improvements.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.

Responsibilities

Customer and business impact

• Own the most complex customer engagements and technical workstreams, especially where the problem, solution, or path to production is ambiguous

• Build deep understanding of customer architecture, business goals, constraints, and definition of success, and use that understanding to shape the technical approach rather than only execute within a predefined one

• Act as a trusted technical counterpart to customer’s engineering leaders, internal product and engineering leaders, and executive stakeholders when navigating complex tradeoffs, risks, and priorities

Technical leadership and execution

• Lead architectural design for customer-facing solutions and platform capabilities within the FDE domain, balancing hands-on implementation with technical decision-making across multiple teams

• Take ambiguous, high-level problems and turn them into clear technical direction, implementation plans, milestones, and ownership boundaries that enable execution at quality and

Department: Magenta