Forward Deployed Engineer, Cyberhaven
$170-190k
Data loss prevention & insider risk security
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Data loss prevention & insider risk security
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-190k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To safeguard the flow of data in the digital economy so that creators maintain ownership and attribution of their work.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Production Engineering, SRE, or customer-facing roles embedded within an R&D or product engineering organization
- Deep, hands-on experience with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-managed clusters)
- Experience delivering and operating on-prem or hybrid enterprise software, including Kubernetes platforms and virtual appliances
- Strong understanding of enterprise networking and security (TLS, DNS, load balancers, proxies, firewalls)
- Skilled at debugging distributed systems using logs, metrics, and traces, and comfortable navigating unfamiliar systems quickly
- Confident working directly with enterprise customers on architecture discussions, deployments, and high-severity incidents
- Product-minded: you naturally turn customer friction into actionable engineering improvements
- Clear communicator who can operate across engineering, go-to-market, and customer-facing teams
What the job involves
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Cyberhaven’s R&D organization, you will embed deeply with enterprise customers deploying Cyberhaven’s Content Inspection (CI) stack in their own cloud or datacenter environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes)
- You operate where real customer environments meet product engineering—turning complex deployments, failures, and edge cases into concrete product and reliability improvements
- This role is hands-on, highly technical, and outward-facing
- You are part of R&D, and will partner with SRE, Sales Engineering, Professional Services, and Customer Support to accelerate successful customer outcomes while strengthening CI’s architecture, operability, and scalability as DSPM on-prem connectors become the norm
- Act as an R&D owner for customer deployments of on-prem and hybrid Content Inspection (CI), ensuring real-world requirements inform product behavior and roadmap decisions
- Work directly with customers to architect, deploy, and validate CI in production environments, including Kubernetes, Helm, networking, security, and performance considerations
- Lead investigation of complex customer issues by reproducing them in lab or test clusters, either delivering fixes or driving them to resolution within R&D
- Serve as a technical point of contact for high-severity CI incidents, joining customer bridges and coordinating resolution across R&D, SRE, and Customer Support
- Partner with SRE on reliability, capacity planning, upgrade safety, and operational readiness for on-prem CI
- Collaborate with Sales Engineering during late-stage evaluations and technical deep dives to ensure CI can meet customer architecture, scale, and security requirements
- Co-lead deployments and upgrades with Professional Services, validating prerequisites, reviewing configurations, and shaping best practices for repeatable success
- Act as the R&D point person for DSPM on-prem connectors, supporting design partners, validating new capabilities, and enabling large-scale customer rollouts
- Drive product improvements by owning feedback related to diagnostics, observability, configuration safety, upgrade/rollback behavior, and supportability
- Create internal design notes, runbooks, and technical documentation that bridge customer reality and engineering intent
- Participate in design reviews, release readiness, and post-incident retrospectives to ensure customer learnings are captured and acted on
Our take
Cyberhaven is a platform that blends risk management, cloud access security and traditional data loss prevention solutions to provide enterprises with robust data protection. As the landscape of data handling evolves, its solutions offers visibility into sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments, disrupting the DLP industry.
Founded in 2016, Cyberhaven has in recent years accelerated its growth with key leadership hires and innovative advancements in its technology. This has solidified its position as a premier data security partner in the market as it expands its products, global reach and capabilities.
Considerable funding highlights investor confidence in Cyberhaven. In 2025, for example, it raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. This supports the company's newest offering of AI tools developed specifically to stop employees from leaking data to places like ChatGPT.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
63% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$88m
SERIES C
Total funding: $238.7m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly culture
- 100% paid health benefits for you and your family
- Flexible time off
- Potential fast-tracked career advancement opportunities
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Vitaly Chipounov
(Chief Architect & Co-founder)Doctor of Philosophy and Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where they built S²E – a platform for multi-path in-vivo analysis of complex software systems.
Cristian Zamfir
(VP of Reliability & Co-founder)Computer Science PhD at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Inventor of Execution Synthethis, a celebrated method which automates the debugging of concurrent software.
Volodymyr Kuznetsov
(CTO & Co-founder)Doctor of Philosophy and Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where they researched ways of using program analysis and instrumentation to solve cyber security problems.
Radu Banabic
(Architect & Co-founder)Obtained a PhD from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, after developing tools and approaches that automatically find bugs and vulnerabilities in large systems.
Nishant Doshi
(CEO)Joined the company in 2024 as Chief Product and Development Officer. Prior experience includes SVP and GM at Harness, CEO and Founder at Propelo and VP of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks.
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