About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, software engineering services.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

You will join a cross-functional team delivering field-deployed software solutions for a Confidential Client. This Forward Deployed Software Engineer role focuses on integrating, deploying, and operating software systems in customer environments and working closely with stakeholders to ensure successful, mission-aligned outcomes.

• Integrate and deploy software solutions at customer sites or in field environments
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues that occur in deployed systems
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to design pragmatic solutions for real-world constraints
• Build and maintain automation, deployment pipelines, and monitoring to support reliable field operations
• Document configurations, runbooks, and post-deployment lessons learned for future deployments
• Act as the technical liaison between engineering teams and customer stakeholders during deployments and field tests

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What We’re Looking For

We seek candidates who combine strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to operate in customer-facing, deployment-focused contexts.

• Proven experience delivering software into production environments and supporting deployments
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in real-world systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication; comfortable working directly with customers and stakeholders
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and producing clear technical documentation
• Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites as required

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD tooling, deployment automation, and system monitoring
• Background in systems integration, reliability engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE)
• Familiarity with cloud and containerized environments (for deployment and operations)
• Prior experience in customer-facing or field engineering roles

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Location & Travel

This role is based in Springfield, VA. The position may require travel to customer sites and field deployments; the exact travel frequency will be discussed during the interview process.

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Compensation & Benefits

Compensation and benefits are determined by our client. Careertakes can share additional information about typical ranges and benefit offerings where available. No salary range was provided in the original posting.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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