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Forward Deployed Engineer. @fde-forward-deployed-engineer
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Provider Scrums.com
Last review 2026-09-10
What you get
the numbers that matter≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Forward Deployed Engineer · Global
How this engineer works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an engineer, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Highlights
Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy production applied AI close to the customer — configuring context, tools, permissions, evaluations and guardrails in the Scrums.com AI agent harness, and delivering through the Software Engineering Orchestration Platform. Available at Intermediate (3+ yrs), Senior (6+ yrs) and Principal (10+ yrs) levels across London, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cape Town and Lagos.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this engineer binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second engineer into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAll-in: the engineer, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is Forward Deployed Engineer priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is Forward Deployed Engineer available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a Forward Deployed Engineer deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides Forward Deployed Engineer?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other engineers| Engineer | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Deployed Engineer · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | talent · opportunity | ● available |
| Senior Solutions Architect | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | talent · south-africa · opportunity | ● available |
| Senior Product Manager | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | talent · south-africa · opportunity | ● available |
| Senior Backend Engineer (Python) | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | talent · nigeria · opportunity | ● available |