Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will embed with strategic customers to own the end-to-end delivery of custom integrations. You will design technical approaches, write code to connect Plane to existing tools, and work alongside customer engineers to ensure code runs in production.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of custom integrations for strategic customers.
• Build against APIs and infrastructure not designed by Plane.
• Design technical approaches for specific customer use cases and write the code.
• Work daily embedded with customer engineers and stakeholders.
• Decide if customer requests are one-off integrations or product gaps.
• Debug integrations failing on customer infrastructure using logs and screen shares.

Required qualifications

• Shipped production code that talks to real customer systems.
• Proficient in Python.
• Comfortable with API design and integration work including auth flows and webhooks.
• Experience working embedded with a customer or demanding internal stakeholder.
• Ability to hold technical conversations with engineers and executives.
• Comfortable owning a project with a real deadline and no clear handoff.

Nice to have

• Contributed to Plane, run it self-hosted, or maintained another open project.
• Shipped software into regulated or isolated environments like banking, defense, healthcare, or air-gapped environments.
• Built systems where AI agents act on real data.
• Worked in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or professional services engineering role before.

About the company

Plane builds work management infrastructure for humans and AI agents to work together. The platform is used by teams globally and serves regulated industries like aerospace, defense, and financial services.