Forward Deployed Engineer
Posted 20 Jul 2026
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
Location: Remote, United States (East Coast or Denver preferred)
Tech Stack: C++/Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure
Team Size: 10 Engineers (EU-based)
Travel: up to 25%
Bitmovin is a global Series-C SaaS scale-up that provides award-winning video streaming technology to world-renowned brands and managed service providers. Our solution suite consists of Live and VOD Encoding, a Multi-Platform Player, and Analytics platform; enabling content owners to redefine the viewer experience through API-based workflow optimization, fast turnaround, and scalability.
We have seen great success and created great momentum in the market. This is down to our products, ecosystem, but ultimately our people who love video streaming.
“We are constantly seeking out forward thinking individuals who want to shape the future of video… come and work with us!”
Stefan Lederer, CEO
At Bitmovin we value cognitive diversity and the huge part this plays in not only creating a global culture second to none, but in how this underpins our ability to create truly representative, Emmy award winning products. Diversity in all its forms is encouraged and celebrated at Bitmovin; everyone has a role to play in helping us shape the future of video.
Why will your impact matter?
At Bitmovin, we’re redefining how the world streams video. Our Emmy award-winning technology powers video for household names like Red Bull Media House, RTL, and Technicolor — and we’re just getting started.
This is the first Forward Deployed Engineer at Bitmovin — a greenfield role where you'll define the playbook, not inherit one.
You'll sit inside our Encoding engineering team, shipping production code in its sprints, while being the technical face of Bitmovin for our marquee US media and streaming customers. When Europe is offline, you're the one keeping US enterprise accounts moving: triaging encoding issues, driving incidents to resolution or a clean handover, and turning what you learn in the field into better product.
It's real engineering plus real customer ownership. The kind of hybrid profile that's hard to find and builds toward Staff Engineer, Solutions Architecture leadership, or founding-engineer-style roles.
What you’ll do:
- Contribute production code (Java/Kotlin, C++ encoding stack) as an embedded member of the Encoding team's sprints
- Own our US enterprise accounts technically: cover the timezone gap, triage and troubleshoot encoding issues during EU off-hours, and drive incidents to resolution or a safe handover