Forward Deployed Engineer

What you will do:

• Own deployments end to end: integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrade paths, and the runbook the customer's ops team will use.
• Build the reference applications that prove a use case, across collateral movement, tokenized deposit transfer, and settlement flows.
• Carry the pager for Prividium and the services we run around it, including the night something breaks and the fix that stops it breaking again.
• Work with the Head of Product and Head of Sales on which accounts to go deep on, and with our core engineering team on what graduates from a deployment into the platform.

Requirements

• Production software you have owned and run, including carrying a pager for it.
• A strong coder. TypeScript or Rust in your day to day, or deep fluency in a comparable language such as Java, C#, Go, or Python and the ability to pick ours up fast.
• Serious time inside customer environments, whether as a forward deployed engineer, a solutions architect, or a technical founder. Former founders are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you come from banking

• Experience building or integrating software for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of the systems banks run: core banking platforms, custody and key management, identity and entitlements, ISO 20022 or comparable messaging standards, enterprise auth and network architecture.
• Fluency with risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, and procurement.
• No blockchain experience required. We will teach you the stack.

If you come from crypto infrastructure

• Experience with Ethereum execution clients and node internals. Direct reth experience is a strong signal.
• Rust in production, since that is where the node work lives.
• Comfortable operating chain infrastructure in production: node topology, upgrades, sync and reorg behavior, monitoring.
• Experience with Solidity or readiness to learn it quickly and a working understanding of rollup and bridging mechanics.
• Able to explain cryptographic trust guarantees to audiences who do not have that background.

Work model & pay

• Competitive base salary.
• Performance-based variable compensation and a long-term token incentive are additional. Both are paid in ZK tokens. New-hire token grants vest over four years with a one-year cliff.
• Fully remote, with roughly 10 to 25 percent travel to customer sites depending on which accounts you carry.
• Shared on-call rotation covering Prividium and our hosted services. Everyone in this role is on it.
• Our customers are in North America and Europe, so we need working-hours overlap with those time zones.