[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @Certa

Role Description

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to reinvent how Certa gets implemented. Because our no-code Studio lets you configure a workflow simply by describing it — Vibe Configuration℠ — one person can now sit with the customer, understand a requirement as it's spoken, and build it live, so they see their own workflow running in the same session. You'll work directly with Fortune 500 teams across compliance, information security, privacy, legal, procurement, finance, and sustainability — credible enough to discuss vendor-tiering policy with a Chief Procurement Officer, then open Studio and build it. You'll be one of the first people doing this, which means you'll also define how it's done.

• Understand the business process:
• Run discovery and design sessions with Fortune 500 teams across compliance, security, privacy, legal, procurement, finance, and sustainability — often in the same room with competing views.
• Learn how their third-party processes actually run today, including the parts that live in email, spreadsheets, and people's heads.
• Document & optimize it:
• Map the current state and agree on a target state against the metrics customers actually care about — onboarding cycle time, assessment turnaround, reviewer effort, audit readiness.
• You're not there to digitize a bad process faithfully; a workflow that's technically correct but painful to use won't get adopted.
• Reviewer effort and drop-off are your problem, not theirs.
• Configure & automate it in Certa:
• Build the workflows, forms, logic, risk scoring, and approvals in Studio using Vibe Configuration℠ — live in the room wherever possible.
• Integrate and debug data flows into existing systems.
• Own the delivery:
• Own the plan, governance, and test cycle (scenarios and cases, SIT, UAT with the customer's own testers, sanity and regression).
• Accountable for the date and the success metrics behind it.
• Bring learning back from the front lines:
• Find the platform's real limits before anyone else does and bring them to Product with evidence.
• Turn what you built into templates and accelerators for future deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in customer-facing technical delivery — forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, implementation consulting, or technical professional services.
• Comfortable with REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, and data mapping; able to script in Python or JavaScript and debug a failure across two systems you didn't build.
• Production LLM experience — worked with LLMs in production rather than in demos.
• Product-centric & shipping-biased — think about the user in front of the screen.
• Delivery fluency — familiar with project plans, RAID logs, phase gates, test scenarios and cases, SIT, UAT, and regression testing.
• Thoughtful and streamlined communication — able to engage with a Chief Procurement Officer, privacy counsel, and security architect.
• Domain knowledge (a plus) — third-party risk, procurement, or compliance experience helps.

Requirements

• Top of market salary + bonuses and equity.
• 49 days paid time off.
• PTO, full benefits, retirement and wellness plans.
• Professional development support, remote workspace setup bonus.
• Annual company offsites in exciting locations around the world.

Location

Certa is a remote-first company and we hire globally. We believe strongly in each team member working from the location that they choose. Should Certers wish to meet and work in person, they have 3 lively office locations they can travel to:

• London
• San Francisco
• Jaipur

Why Certa

• Category leadership — named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools.
• Industry recognition — honored across the analyst and awards landscape, including Top Tech and Customer Value distinctions.
• A top place to work — named one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in the US.
• Real scale with strong backing — processed over 10 million entities for 100,000+ users across 120+ countries.