Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Ava Labs designing bespoke solutions for institutional partners on the Avalanche blockchain. Collaborate with high-profile customers and lead technical delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own FDE technical delivery across a named set of institutional partners — designing the architecture across the entire Avalanche stack (node / validator setup, failover procedures, interoperability, …) from partner ask to working output
  • Pair with Enterprise Go-to-Market on active POCs to close the gap between commercial requirements and production-grade technical solutions
  • Represent Avalanche credibly in partner-facing technical settings: sit across from Directors of Engineering at financial institutions and translate bespoke asks into scoped requirements without losing the strategic frame
  • Engage in depth, not volume — most weeks are heads-down implementation work punctuated by focused technical syncs, not a meeting-heavy customer-success cadence
  • Work hands-on across the Avalanche stack: AvalancheGo, EVM, Interchain Messaging, and validator infrastructure
  • Design and implement solutions that operate within the constraints regulated institutions actually run: KMS/HSM remote signing, audit trails, restricted-peer networking, backup/restore procedures, firewall topologies
  • Respond to security assessment requests and technical diligence from institutional partners
  • Contribute to and maintain the developer tooling and SDK surface owned by FDE. This is the same tooling that underpins partner deployments and the broader Avalanche ecosystem
  • Harden, extend, and document tooling driven by recurring institutional requirements, so that the next partner inherits a more capable platform than the last
  • Treat tooling work and partner delivery as a single loop: lessons from each engagement land back in the shared surface
  • Identify when a one-off partner solution should become a reusable FDE artifact and drive that abstraction
  • Build and maintain runbooks, technical documentation, and the FDE Protocol Requests database (Notion-tracked)
  • Accelerate conversion timelines for subsequent regulated partners by compounding the institutional playbook with each engagement
  • Shadow and contribute to the most complex active engagements early, internalizing the institutional playbook in context
  • Take primary FDE ownership of named partners as ramp completes, reducing concentration risk on the team
  • Operate as a credible future #2 within FDE, exhibiting mentorship, end-to-end scope ownership, and comfort representing the function externally

Requirements

  • Hands-on depth across the Avalanche (or a comparable L1/L2) stack
  • AI-native execution, proven ability to leverage modern coding assistants and agentic tooling to produce production-grade output at speed
  • Customer-facing maturity in enterprise or institutional settings; comfortable representing technical depth to senior engineering stakeholders at regulated financial institutions
  • Strong documentation and operational discipline: you close loops, build runbooks, and maintain the tracked artifacts FDE's institutional partners depend on
  • Pattern abstraction instinct, you recognize when a bespoke partner solution should be generalized and you drive that productization

Benefits

  • Token and Equity Package

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$143,000 - $179,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Node.jsGo

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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