Vista Equity Partners
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Vista Equity Partners
- Location
- United States
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience asked for
- 7+ years
- Pay band
- $200K – $315K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-04-29 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Position Summary Vista is hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to embed inside the engineering organizations of our 90+ enterprise software companies and ship production outcomes in their organizations, on accelerated timelines. You will own delivery end to end, from first discovery call through operationalization and handoff, working out of Vista's Product & Technology Practice but living inside a company's repos, CI/CD, and production reality for the duration of each engagement. This is the Palantir FDE model, applied to the largest enterprise software portfolio in the world. Your output is the systems, workflows, and tooling that let engineers ship dramatically faster and at higher quality. The product features stay theirs. The engineering capability you leave behind is yours to be measured against. …
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