Forward Deployed Engineering Lead, Doppel
$120-220k
Social engineering defense platform
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Social engineering defense platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-220k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world from social engineering attacks every day.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of software engineering experience building production applications (Python preferred), including 2+ years in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or customer-facing engineering role
- Experience leading engineers — formally or informally — while still shipping yourself
- Deep experience with enterprise integrations: OAuth, SAML, SCIM, IDP sync, webhooks, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and REST APIs
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: you've thrived somewhere the org was reorganizing around rapid growth, and you treat an undefined charter as an opportunity rather than a blocker
- A track record of turning bespoke customer work into reusable product or platform capabilities
- Comfortable working directly with enterprise customers, including non-technical stakeholders, and negotiating priorities with sales and product
- Familiarity with AI application development, LLM APIs, or workflow automation is a strong plus
- Strong judgment about ownership: when your team should own a problem, when to incubate and hand off, and when to influence another team's roadmap instead
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, bridging technical and non-technical teams
- Product-minded, highly autonomous, and comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment
What the job involves
- We're building the AI-native social engineering defense platform
- This means we're designing scalable systems that monitor billions of domains, social media accounts, apps, dark web forums, etc., and leverage AI agents to identify and neutralize digital threats
- Doppel's Forward Deployed Engineering team sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and go-to-market. We work directly with the world's largest enterprises to deploy Doppel, build the integrations that connect us to their security stack, and turn what we learn in the field into product
- As Doppel rapidly expands its product portfolio, what this team owns and where its boundaries sit is being figured out in real time — and you'll be the one figuring it out. This is the real draw of the role: there's no playbook, the mandate is deliberately unfinished, and you'll define it by choosing which problems the team takes on and making the case for what forward deployed engineering at Doppel becomes
- Lead and grow a team of forward deployed engineers — setting direction, unblocking projects, and staying hands-on with customers and code
- Own the enterprise integration portfolio: SIEM/SOAR connectors (Splunk, Sentinel, Cortex XSOAR, and more), ticketing and collaboration tools, custom webhooks, and email ecosystem integrations
- Own enterprise identity: SSO, SCIM provisioning, and IDP sync with providers like Okta, Entra, and HR systems — including troubleshooting OAuth and SAML issues in the field
- Serve as the senior technical presence in strategic enterprise deals: scope integrations pre-sale, de-risk deployments, and get customers live fast
- Turn one-off customer builds into product — define how forward-deployed prototypes graduate into core platform capabilities, and make each new integration cheaper to build than the last
- Expand the team's charter into high-leverage problems that blend sales, product, and engineering: AI-powered automations, GTM tooling, and internal workflows that compress onboarding and deployment timelines
- Continuously renegotiate the team's role as new products launch — deciding what the team builds, what it hands off, and what it declines, and coordinating multiple customer projects across engineering, product, sales, and customer success
- Set the standard for documentation, dashboards, and deployment best practices
Our take
While the NFT space is often one that is enticing to investors and traders, there are persistent issues with fraud in the market. Cybercriminals are able to pass off any image as their own intellectual property, and while NFT marketplaces do abide by copyright laws this kind of fraud can be hard to spot before money changes hands. The damage to a brand's reputation and customer trust can be hard to rectify.
Doppel exists to solve this problem. Using an AI model trained to spot fraud and IP violations, it indexes NFT data across most of the major blockchains and flags potentially fraudulent NFTs. Trusted by Opensea, Dapper and numerous other marketplaces, Doppel scans over 1.5 million NFTs daily and has identified over 100,000 threats in the marketplace.
Doppel has raised significant funding, its 2025 round aimed at accelerating product innovation and expanding its capabilities beyond NFT fraud detection into broader social engineering defense. As AI-driven scams become more sophisticated, the company is ready as a multi-channel security platform, helping organizations detect, prevent, and respond to threats across digital environments.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$35m
SERIES B
Jan 2024
$14.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $54.4m
Company benefits
- Health benefits: We’ve got your health covered, so you can focus on what matters.
- Flexible time off: Take the time you need, when you need it.
- Supporting Life's Biggest Job: Because family matters most, we offer paid time off for parents to bond, rest, and adjust to life’s biggest change.
- Perks for Office Days: We make getting to the office (and staying nourished) easier.
- Cell stipend: We make staying in touch a little easier.
- Home office setup: We'll take care of your home office, so you can take care of the work that matters.
Leadership
Kevin Tian
(Co-Founder & CEO)Kevin previously founded Ferryhome. Prior to that, he was a Staff Engineer & Engineering Manager at Lyft and Senior Software Engineer with Uber.
Rahul Madduluri
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Doppel, Rahul was the Co-founder & CTO of YakPak and a Software Engineer at Uber.
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