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We have become a market leader in Bitcoin security and Layer-2 technologies. Our products are designed to make financial systems more efficient, secure, and robust.\nWe're seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer embedded directly inside customer engineering teams, writing the code, building the tooling, integrations and configurations needed to get Blockstream's products into production. Additionally you ship what you build back into the core product.\nOperating within the Consulting Services organization, the Forward Deployed Engineer partners closely with Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Sales, and Delivery teams to help customers successfully implement and adopt Blockstream's products.\nThis is not a traditional configuration or support role. You will spend significant time working directly alongside customer engineering, operations, and technology teams, often onsite, to understand complex banking environments, solve technical challenges, and deliver production-ready solutions. As the technical bridge between customers and Blockstream, you will play a critical role in accelerating customer success while providing valuable implementation insights that continuously improve our products and delivery methodology.\nWhat You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities):\nCustomer Delivery & Implementation\nAI-first prototyping: Use AI-assisted development to stand up minimum viable solutions or proof of concepts on short turnaround notice, proving Enterprise Product value early in an engagement and hardening the winning prototypes into use case based playbooks.\n\nTech Pre-Sales: Support Enterprise Sales in technical pre-sales, RFP/RFI and security questionnaire responses; contribute to SOW scoping, effort estimation, and scope-change management.\n\nDelivery: Own the technical delivery of Blockstream enterprise software from project kickoff through production deployment and post launch support\n\nFinancial Institutions: Work directly with financial institutions to understand business processes, operational workflows, and technical environments.\n\nConfigure, deploy, and optimize Blockstream products based on customer requirements and approved solution designs.\n\nSuccess Criteria: Execute implementation planning, system configuration, testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production deployment, and post-go-live support. Define success criteria, milestones and own implementation.\n\nDeliver administrator and end-user enablement sessions to ensure successful customer adoption.\n\nEnterprise integration: Integrate with core banking and capital-markets systems.\n\nEngineering & Technical Delivery\nControlled environments: Deploy into on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped banking environments under formal change control, producing the security and audit evidence that compliance and pen-test reviews require.\n\nDesign and implement integrations between Blockstream enterprise products and customer systems using required integration interfaces and data pipeline technologies.\n\nTroubleshoot complex technical, configuration, and integration challenges throughout the implementation lifecycle.\n\nWork closely with customer engineering teams to ensure secure, scalable, and production-ready deployments.\n\nDevelop reusable deployment assets, implementation playbooks, technical documentation, and best practices.\n\nCollaborate closely with Engineering to resolve product issues and improve implementation quality.\n\nCustomer Collaboration\nEmbed directly with customer teams to gain a deep understanding of their operating environment and technical challenges.\nFacilitate technical workshops, architecture discussions, and implementation planning sessions.\n\nAct as a trusted technical advisor throughout the implementation lifecycle.\n\nBuild strong relationships across customer Technology, Operations, Security, and Engineering functions.\n\nDigital Assets Product Improvement Feedback Loop\nTurn implementation learnings, customer feedback, and product enhancement opportunities into code\n\nIdentify repeatable deployment patterns across engagements and contribute to standardized implementation methodologies.\n\nPartner with Product Management and Engineering to shape the roadmap and improve platform capabilities based on real customer implementations.\n\nHelp accelerate customer time-to-production through continuous improvement of deployment frameworks and best practices.\n\nWhat We Look for In You (Required Qualifications):\n4-8 years of experience in Software Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Technical Consulting, Implementation Engineering, or Enterprise Software Delivery.\n\nProficiency in at least one systems or backend language (e.g. Python, Go, Rust) sufficient to build and ship integrations, tooling and services independently\n\nExperience implementing and deploying enterprise software solutions within complex customer environments.\n\nStrong understanding of protocol intermediation, enterprise integration patterns, cloud technologies, security fundamentals and modern software architectures.\n\nExperience working directly with enterprise customers throughout implementation and deployment projects.\n\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\n\nAbility to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.\n\nComfortable collaborating across Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Sales, and Consulting teams.\n\nStrong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.\n\nSelf-starter with proven ability to work independently while managing multiple customer engagements.\n\nWillingness to travel regularly to customer locations across North America for the US based role.\n\nExcellent English skills are required\n\nNice To Haves (Preferred Qualifications):\nExperience working with financial institutions, like private banking, wealth management, custody, payments, treasury, or capital markets.\n\nBackground in Bitcoin, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization, or fintech.\n\nExperience integrating enterprise software using APIs and modern integration frameworks.\n\nKnowledge of cloud platforms, containerized deployments, or infrastructure automation.\n\nFamiliarity with Layer-2 technologies and digital asset infrastructure.\n\nExperience contributing product feedback from customer implementations into engineering roadmaps.\n\nStay Safe from Job Scams\nAll official Blockstream communication will come from an @blockstream.com email address. 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