Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$207,000–$300,000
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers
1,244 postings · 560 companies · 944 state pay: median $204,000, half $173,000–$231,000
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$133,400–$226,800
Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 moreFrisco, TX +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
$185,000–$300,000
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreBerkeley, CA +2Remote
$182,000–$250,208
$136,948–$167,380
$158,000–$210,000
$185,000–$300,000
$192,000–$455,000
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$174,000–$252,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +4 moreDenver, CO +5
$143,700–$213,800
$185,000–$300,000
$195,000–$225,000
$207,000–$300,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +4 moreDenver, CO +5
$168,100–$250,200
$150,000–$275,000
$114,000–$192,000
Senior Consultant CPM (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +1 moreAtlanta, GA +2Hybrid
$95,000–$140,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +4 moreDenver, CO +5
$168,100–$250,200
$185,000–$215,000
$180,000–$240,000
Pay not posted
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +3 moreDenver, CO +4
$143,700–$194,400
$150,000–$180,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +4 moreDenver, CO +5
$143,700–$213,800
Senior Software Engineer – AI, Tax and Audit, FDE
Brooklyn, NY · Frisco, TX · +2 moreBrooklyn, NY +3Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
$85,000–$95,000
Pay not posted
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$174,000–$252,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$250,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +3 moreDenver, CO +4
$168,100–$227,400
$207,000–$300,000
$180,000–$200,000
$197,800–$271,975
$250,000–$400,000 · OTE
Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Geo
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +2 moreMountain View, CA +3
$152,000–$221,000
982 of 1,244 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers pay?
944 of 1,244 postings state a pay range. The median is $204,000, and half of them sit between $173,000 and $231,000, from 379 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers require?
Of 1,244 postings, 961 state a minimum number of years, from 487 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 526 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (275), under 3 years (96) or 10 or more years (64).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers?
These 1,244 postings come from 560 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (64), Databricks (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (47), Accenture (29) and OpenAI (28).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers remote?
271 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 287 are hybrid and 245 are on-site. The remaining 441 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 655 of the 1,244 postings.
Counted over the 1,244 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · The background is what the posting asks for in the employer’s own words. Postings that state no experience requirement, or ask for experience outside the five we list, are left out. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings