Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
About the role
Location
This is a remote role based in Singapore. Candidates must live and work in Singapore and be legally authorized to work in Singapore.
The Opportunity
As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer for Stacklok, you will serve as the technical lead for APAC and help build the region. This is hands-on work in the field: embedding with enterprise customers, taking them from first evaluation to production deployment, and answering the toughest technical questions that emerge along the way. As demand across APAC accelerates, you will own how Stacklok lands with every customer in the region.
Beyond customer engagements, the role helps shape technical direction across APAC, establish deployment patterns the broader organization builds on, and mentor engineers across the team. Field experience feeds directly into design reviews and roadmap discussions, ensuring customer realities help drive product and engineering decisions.
The technical depth is substantial. The work spans complex Kubernetes deployments and the operational constraints of large enterprise environments, solving the problems that determine whether AI initiatives successfully reach production. It is an opportunity to shape how AI reaches production across some of the most demanding organizations in the region.
What Success Looks Like: First 6-12 Months
- Onboarded quickly and led live APAC engagements within the first 90 days, becoming the senior technical leader that customers and the field team rely on across the region.
- Took a Design Partner or enterprise customer from first evaluation to a working production deployment, clearing the hardest Kubernetes and platform blockers along the way.
- Stood up the in-region engagement model from scratch: the runbooks, escalation paths, and deployment standards that every APAC engagement now follows.
- Raised the technical bar across the region, lifting the engineers around them and turning field learnings into a reusable, AI-assisted practice.