Antithesis
Forward Deployed Engineer
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Forward Deployed Engineer
About Antithesis
We’re on a mission to redefine how modern distributed systems are tested and released. Our platform is trusted by engineering teams who demand rock-solid reliability, scalable performance, and deep technical visibility. Our platform doesn’t just assure system correctness and reliability—it exists because developers need something better. If you’ve ever experienced the pain of a production outage, spent a bad week on-call, or had a release delayed by weeks because of one killer bug, you’ll understand exactly why we’re doing what we do.
If you're passionate about developer-first products, system resilience, and correctness, we’d love to talk.
About The Role
The best way to learn what our platform should do next is to sit next to the people using it. This is the job.
You’ll embed with our customers, identify where shipping reliable software remains too challenging or slow, and help guide what Antithesis builds next.
What You’ll Do
Nearly every company we work with faces a common pain point:
"We’re building a new system that we need to ship fast, but it can’t fail. So, every major change becomes weeks of careful review before we trust it. How can we use Antithesis to streamline this?"
You’re the one who steps in. From the start, you:
- Help a customer get their system running inside Antithesis.
- Ensure it’s catching their most critical bugs.
- Chase down the issues it uncovers.
- Integrate Antithesis into their workflow: CI, code reviews, and agent practices.
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When it works, they merge major changes faster and trust any software they ship holds.
This covers the customer-side of the role. The other side is where you act as an engineer on-site. You:
- Spot what feels slow, error-prone, or lacking.
- Propose a solution.
- Work with our platform team to prototype it—whether it’s a sharper way to detect bugs, an easier way to fix them, or an agent feature iterating on test results.
- Return to the customer afterward to validate if the fix solves their issue.
Many of the improvements that powered Antithesis today came from this Feedback Loop.
What We Need
You must have:
- Real-world experience building or operating serious systems software where correctness is critical, and failures are subtle. The specifics of the domain matter less than your instinct for where things go wrong.
- Experience as a customer-facing engineer—you’ve been in the room when something’s broken, and you had to step up to help. If you loved it, that’s a plus.
- The ability to read unfamiliar code, instrument it, write tests, and debug without prior knowledge of the system.
- A preference for fixing what’s broken rather than working around it. Here, these fixes might become part of the product shipping company-wide.
- The skill to explain technical concepts to non-technical people without lecturing.
- Availability for five days a week in-person (DC, London, or SF) plus occasional travel to customer sites.
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Bonus Experience
We’ll happily explore the following:
- Strong background in fuzzing, property-based testing, or chaos engineering.
- Work in domains like fintech, databases, blockchain, event streaming, cloud infrastructure, or high-frequency trading.
- Experience building internal developer tools.
- Prior roles at a startup where the job demanded rapid, ever-evolving technical solutions.
Why This Role Is Different
Most customer-facing engineering jobs end at deployment. Most roles where you influence product direction keep engineers isolated from real users.
This job is different—they let you do both:
- Dive deep into real systems to see firsthand what’s missing.
- Partner on-board with our platform teams to build it.
If you’ve always wondered how to shape a product while keeping your boots on the customer’s ground, let’s talk.
Compensation Range
£65K – £85K
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