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Reducto

Location:
United States, San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

150000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As our founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Reducto, you’ll be at the front lines with our customers—deploying and tuning our systems in real-world environments. You’ll bridge the gap between our core engineering team and the unique, complex needs of our enterprise users. Moreover, you’ll build out the foundation of how this org will grow and expand. Expect to wear many hats: building integrations, debugging gnarly edge cases, optimizing deployment pipelines, and shipping features that materially improve the user experience.

Job Responsibility:

Deploying and maintaining on-prem and VPC instances of Reducto’s systems, often with complex enterprise constraints
Building tooling to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easier to debug
Creating diagnostics, dashboards, and eval harnesses to measure performance and track regressions across environments
Writing crisp internal documentation and playbooks for repeatable deployments
Collaborating closely with customers, support, and core engineers to identify high-impact improvements
Acting as a feedback loop to the product and infra teams—surfacing usability gaps, unmet needs, and opportunities to deepen customer value
Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy

Requirements:

3 to 6 years of experience deploying software in production settings—ideally with enterprise or regulated customers
Excellent with Python
Can navigate Bash and infrastructure as needed
Very comfortable with Kubernetes
Ability to build own tools as needed
A quantitative approach to building products
Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast
Comfortable getting hands-on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users

Nice to have:

Prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages
Ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people
Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI

What we offer:

Unlimited PTO
Free lunch daily at the office
Reimbursed Transportation
Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
Health and Wellness Budget up to $150/mo reimbursement
Parental Leave

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 11, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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