Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

About the role
We’re looking for a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead the team responsible for helping our most strategic enterprise customers operationalize Replit inside their organizations.

Reporting to the President and Head of AI, you’ll lead a team operating at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer transformation. Your team will embed deeply with customers, solve hard technical problems, build production systems, and help define how enterprises adopt AI-native software development.

This is not a traditional solutions engineering or post-sales role. Forward Deployed Engineers at Replit are software engineers who work directly with customers to build production systems, deploy AI-native workflows, and turn customer problems into reusable platform capabilities.

This team should be among the most advanced users of Replit and AI-native development workflows inside the company. We expect Forward Deployed Engineers to aggressively use AI agents, automation, and Replit itself to increase leverage and accelerate customer outcomes.

This role requires strong technical depth, product instincts, customer judgment, and the ability to operate at high velocity in ambiguous environments.

In this role you willBuild and lead the FDE organization

Hire and develop a high-talent-density team of Forward Deployed Engineers

Define the hiring bar, operating principles, and execution standards for the organization

Build a team culture centered around speed, ownership, pragmatism, and customer impact

Create systems and tooling that allow the team to scale without becoming process-heavy

Work directly with strategic customers

Partner with engineering leaders, product teams, and executives at some of Replit’s largest enterprise customers

Help customers redesign workflows around AI-native software development

Lead complex technical engagements involving integrations, infrastructure, agents, automation, and internal developer platforms

Unblock high-stakes deployments and help customers move from experimentation to production adoption

Build production systems

Lead teams building real applications and workflows directly inside customer environments

Drive rapid prototyping and iteration cycles with customers

Jump into architecture reviews, debugging sessions, implementation strategy, or live builds when needed

Influence product and platform direction

Identify repeatable customer implementation patterns and turn them into reusable platform capabilities

Partner closely with Product and Engineering to upstream learnings from customer deployments into the core platform

Contribute production-ready code, tooling, integrations, and reference architectures that improve enterprise adoption at scale

Create tight feedback loops between customer environments and Replit’s internal product development teams

Drive business impact

Partner closely with Sales, Field Engineering, and Product on strategic accounts

Improve customer adoption, expansion, retention, and deployment velocity

Act as an executive escalation point for critical customer situations

Help define how Replit scales enterprise adoption globally

Success in this role looks like

Strategic customers successfully deploying Replit into production environments

Faster customer time-to-value and expansion across enterprise accounts

Repeatable deployment patterns becoming reusable platform capabilities

Increased enterprise adoption of AI-native development workflows

A high-talent-density FDE organization operating with speed, ownership, and strong customer impact

Required skills and experience

12+ years of experience in engineering, infrastructure, developer tools, applied AI, or customer engineeri…