Forward Deployed Engineer (SDEV)

The posting, as PagerDuty wrote it

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE: PD) is the global leader in AI-first digital operations. By automatically detecting, diagnosing, and remediating issues, the PagerDuty Platform orchestrates AI agents and automated workflows with context from over 750 integrations. Trusted by approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100 and nearly half of the Fortune 500, PagerDuty is the industry standard for organizations scaling resilient, autonomous operations. Notable customers include Chipotle, Cloudflare, Docusign, Fox, Nvidia, Salesforce, Spotify, Zoom and more. We are growing rapidly and hiring top talent with leading AI skills across engineering, sales, product, marketing, and beyond as we build the leading digital operations platform.

PagerDuty is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (SRE Agent) to join our customer-focused SRE Agent team! As a Forward Deployed Engineer , you will work inside PagerDuty’s largest customer accounts, connecting the SRE Agent to their production environments (observability tools, infrastructure as code, GitOps tooling, and CI/CD pipelines) and guiding their teams from AI-assisted incident response to supervised and autonomous actions with safety guardrails. You will also contribute code directly back to the core SRE Agent product, building reusable tools, connectors, and skills derived from real customer needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the product engineering team as the Staff Engineer and directly shape how agentic AI operates within the most strategic customers. The ideal candidate brings a strong background as a software engineer, hands-on experience shipping LLM/agentic systems to production, and the customer-facing skills to bridge technical execution with business strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Embed and drive SRE Agent adoption: Work onsite and in regular contact with 2–4 strategic customer teams to deploy the SRE Agent, configure tools and connectors, and embed AI actions across their incident management lifecycle to drive adoption and value
• Build and contribute core agent capabilities: Scope, design, and build reusable agent tools, connectors, and skills on the agent’s extensibility surfaces, shipping them through the product team's repos, review process, and evaluation gates.
• Run pilots and unblock customer adoption: Stand up new agentic capabilities with strategic accounts first, gather eval data, identify technical blockers (permissions, telemetry, missing connectors), and build production fixes directly into the product.
• Integrate with production stacks and progressive delivery: Connect the SRE Agent to IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms, guiding customers safely from AI-assisted to autonomous operations.
• Set technical direction and feedback insights: Define 3–6 month technical roadmaps across assigned accounts, provide architectural guidance to product managers and engineering managers, and bring customer friction and eval data back

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on to PTO

• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that empowers business resilience and drives operational efficiency for enterprises. With a generative AI assistant at its core, PagerDuty empowers teams to detect and resolve issues in real time, orchestrate complex workflows, and drive continuous improvement across their digital operations. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified™, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2.

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