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
- Deep technical visibility
Our platform doesn’t just assure system correctness and reliability—it exists because developers need something better. If you’ve experienced the pain of a production outage, spent a bad week on-call, or seen a release delayed by weeks due to a killer bug, you’ll understand exactly why we’re doing this. 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 your job. You’ll embed with our customers, identify where shipping reliable software remains too difficult or slow, and help shape what Antithesis does next.
What You’ll Do
Almost every company we work with comes to us with a familiar challenge:
"We're building a new system that we need to ship fast, but it can't fail. So every big change turns into weeks of careful review before we trust it. How can we use Antithesis to make this easier?"
You’re the engineer who shows up to address this. From day one, you’ll:
- Help a customer get their system running inside Antithesis
- Ensure it’s catching their most critical bugs
- Chase down the real risks the platform uncovers
- Integrate Antithesis into their workflows: CI, code reviews, and how their teams write and validate code
- Once it works, help them merge big changes fast and ship with confidence
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This is the customer-facing side of the role. The other side—and the reason we put engineers on-site—is that you’ll notice inefficiencies, slow processes, or missing features in their workflow. You’ll then:
- Prototype fixes with our platform engineering team
- Sharper ways to find bugs
- Easier mechanisms to fix them
- New agent skills to validate results
- Take those changes back to your customer to verify they solve their problem
A lot of what makes Antithesis effective today came directly from this loop.
What We Need
We’re looking for engineers with the following experience:
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Real-world systems software: You’ve spent time building or maintaining serious distributed systems, where:
- Correctness matters
- Failure modes are subtle
- Bugs often slip through traditional testing
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You understand how systems can fail under:
- Concurrency issues
- Fault injection
- Heavy load
(The domain—like fintech, databases, or blockchain—matters less than your ability to predict where things will go wrong.)
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Customer-facing engineering: You’ve worked directly with users as an engineer and:
- Been in the room when something breaks
- Played a hands-on role in fixing it
- Enjoyed helping others despite the pressure
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Debugging prowess:
- Can read unfamiliar codebases
- Instrument systems effectively
- Write tests for unseen scenarios
- Debug to uncover root causes
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-When you hit a rough edge, you’d rather fix it than go around it. At Antithesis, something you fix could ship to everyone.
- Communication: You can explain highly technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders without lectures.
Required location flexibility:
- Committed to five hours per week in the office (DC, London, or SF)
- Occasional travel to our customers’ offices
Bonus Experience
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Testing niches:
- Fuzz testing
- Property-based testing
- Chaos engineering
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Domain exposure:
- Experience building the types of software our customers build (e.g., fintech, databases, blockchain, event streaming, cloud infrastructure, trading systems)
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Developer tools:
- Built internal engineer-facing tools
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Startup agility:
- Adapted to rapidly changing roles in a startup environment
Why This One’s Different
Most customer-facing engineering roles stop at deployment.
Most jobs that allow you to shape a new platform keep you far removed from the end user.
This role does both:
- Close enough to real customer systems to spot gaps in reliability or usability
- Close enough to the product to directly build fixes
If this is the kind of engineering role you’ve been searching for—where you learn at the source and build solutions that matter—let’s talk.
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