Forward Deployed Engineer

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Blockstream, you embed directly inside customer engineering teams to implement and deploy Blockstream's Bitcoin security and Layer-2 products into production. You write the code, build integrations, and ship improvements back to the core product. Working within the Consulting Services organization, you partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Sales, and Delivery teams to help customers succeed while providing implementation insights that improve our products.

What you'll do

• Use AI-assisted development to stand up minimum viable solutions and proof of concepts quickly, proving product value early and hardening winning prototypes into use case-based playbooks.
• Support Enterprise Sales in technical pre-sales, RFP/RFI and security questionnaire responses, and contribute to Statement of Work scoping, effort estimation, and scope-change management.
• Own the technical delivery of Blockstream enterprise software from project kickoff through production deployment and post-launch support.
• Work directly with financial institutions to understand their business processes, operational workflows, and technical environments.
• Configure, deploy, and optimize Blockstream products based on customer requirements and approved solution designs.
• Execute implementation planning, system configuration, testing, User Acceptance Testing, production deployment, and post-go-live support; define success criteria and milestones.
• Deliver administrator and end-user enablement sessions to ensure successful customer adoption.
• Integrate Blockstream products with core banking and capital-markets systems.
• Deploy into on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped banking environments under formal change control, producing the security and audit evidence that compliance and penetration testing reviews require.
• Design and implement integrations between Blockstream enterprise products and customer systems using required integration interfaces and data pipeline technologies.
• Troubleshoot complex technical, configuration, and integration challenges throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Work closely with customer engineering teams to ensure secure, scalable, and production-ready deployments.
• Develop reusable deployment assets, implementation playbooks, technical documentation, and best practices.
• Collaborate with Blockstream Engineering to resolve product issues and improve implementation quality.
• Embed directly with customer teams to gain deep understanding of their operating environment and technical challenges.
• Facilitate technical workshops, architecture discussions, and implementation planning sessions.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the implementation lifecycle and build strong relationships across customer Technology, Operations, Security, and Engineering functions.
• Turn implementation learnings and customer feedback into code and identify repeatable deployment patterns across engagements.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to shape the roadmap and improve platform capabilities based on real customer implementations.
• Help accelerate customer time-to-production through continuous improvement of deployment frameworks and best practices.

What you bring

• 4-8 years of experience in Software Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Technical Consulting, Implementation Engineering, or Enterprise Software Delivery.
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, sufficient to build and ship integrations, tooling and services independently.
• Experience implementing and deploying enterprise software solutions within complex customer environments.
• A strong understanding of protocol intermediation, enterprise integration patterns, cloud technologies, security fundamentals and modern software architectures.
• Direct experience working with enterprise customers throughout implementation and deployment projects.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Comfortable collaborating across Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Sales, and Consulting teams.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to work independently while managing multiple customer engagements.
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations across Switzerland.
• Excellent English skills; German and/or French is strongly preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience working with financial institutions such as private banking, wealth management, custody, payments, treasury, or capital markets.
• Background in Bitcoin, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization, or fintech.
• Experience integrating enterprise software using APIs and modern integration frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerized deployments, or infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with Layer-2 technologies and digital asset infrastructure.
• Experience contributing product feedback from customer implementations into engineering roadmaps.

About Blockstream

Blockstream was founded in 2014 by Dr. Adam Back and a group of cryptographers and engineers passionate about Bitcoin. The company is a market leader in Bitcoin security and Layer-2 technologies, with products designed to make financial systems more efficient, secure, and robust.