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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Praetorian'
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last_seen: '2026-09-12'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Praetorian

- **Company:** Praetorian
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://www.praetorian.com/careers/?gh_jid=7773874003#job-opening

## Job description

We Are Praetorian

Praetorian is defined by raw intensity, fearless candor, and a relentless drive. This is who we are.

We are looking for high-performing, mission-aligned individuals. We prioritize performance over politics and purpose over transaction. This environment is built for those who seek ownership and impact.

Is Praetorian the right fit for you? If you are someone who obsesses over the problem, defaults to open communication, and wants to work with a team that refuses to accept mediocrity—then you have found your home.

The Mission

Praetorian is an expert-driven offensive security company. Our mission is to prevent breaches before they occur. We help organizations shift from an "assume breach" mentality to adopting offensive security as a core strategy of prevention.

We don’t just find bugs; we solve the root cause. We are building a future without compromise, and we need people who run toward the fire.

## Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Forward Deploy Engineer who operates with clear ownership. You're not just answering tickets. You're setting the standard for what customer-facing engineering looks like. You believe the issue in front of you is the floor, not the job — the real work is making sure the next ten customers never hit it.

## How You Operate

You are customer-first by default. When a customer hits a wall, you get them unblocked, and you measure yourself by how fast and how completely that happens. You bring mission-driven grit to every challenge, running toward hard problems rather than away from them. You prioritize customer outcomes over internal processes, and you choose truth and clarity over performative politeness. Being customer-first does not mean customer-always-right — you have the maturity to recognize an unreasonable request and handle it professionally: hold the line, explain why, and offer the path that actually works. The same judgment applies inward. You handle most issues yourself, and when a problem is truly a product defect or a relationship decision, you escalate deliberately to engineering or our CEO, with your diagnosis attached.

How are you using AI today in your current role? What specific tools are you using? If applicable, show us your last AI experiment.

## What You Will Own

- Own the Response: Own technical requests end-to-end — integration setup, error troubleshooting, root-cause diagnosis — for the Praetorian Guard Platform, our unified Continuous Threat Exposure Management service spanning attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach and attack simulation, continuous penetration testing, and exploit intelligence. You are a credible technical peer to the customer's security team, closing the loop with answers they can act on.
- Scale Yourself Through Self-Help: Make customers self-sufficient. Build the documentation, video walkthroughs, and self-serve tools that deflect the next ten tickets, fix bad docs the same day, and use AI tooling to operate beyond what one person could handle manually. Success looks like an issue queue that shrinks as the customer base grows.
- Be the Customer's Voice: Turn recurring friction into well-formed product feedback. Know when the answer is "no, here's the workaround" versus "yes, this belongs on the roadmap," and back every recommendation with evidence rather than requests relayed verbatim.
- Ship the Fix Yourself: For simple changes — error message clarity, small UI papercuts — ship the PR yourself. Hand off larger problems to engineering with your diagnosis and reproduction steps attached.

## What You Bring

- The Foundation: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience, plus 2–5 years in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions engineering, customer success engineering, or security operations.
- Customer Presence: You handle people as well as you handle systems. You are credible and unflustered in front of a skeptical CISO, with writing clear enough to become documentation the moment you hit send.
- Troubleshooting Depth: You diagnose unfamiliar systems to root cause — auth, permissions, network, data — and verify out-of-band with tools like curl, dig, and nmap.
- Engineering Ability: You navigate a production codebase, scope a small change safely, and ship a reviewed PR.
- Teacher's Instinct: You'd rather make ten customers self-sufficient than answer the same question ten times, and you treat every repeated question as a defect in the self-help surface.
- Product Sense: You distinguish what one customer wants from what the customer base needs, and you back product feedback with evidence.
- AI Leverage: You use AI agents and automation to operate at a scale one person couldn't reach manually, without sacrificing accuracy or judgment.
- Security Fluency (a plus): Working knowledge of attack surface management, vulnerability management, or offensive security — enough to speak credibly about why a finding matters.

If This Position Is Wildly Successful, In One Year You Will Have:

- Driven your issue queue down even as the customer base grew, by systematically eliminating the root causes behind repeat tickets
- Built a self-help surface — documentation, video walkthroughs, and self-serve tools — that customers reach for before they ever open a ticket
- Become the trusted technical peer that customer security teams ask for by name, credible enough to hold the line on an unreasonable request and keep the relationship strong
- Shipped fixes directly to the Guard platform codebase for the small, high-friction papercuts, and handed off the larger problems to engineering with diagnoses clean enough to act on immediately
- Closed the gap between the field and the roadmap by turning recurring customer friction into well-formed, evidence-backed product feedback that engineering actually shipped
- Integrated AI tooling into your daily workflow, operating at a scale one person couldn't reach manually without sacrificing accuracy or judgment
- Raised the bar for what customer-facing engineering means at Praetorian, setting the standard the next hires are measured against

Why Praetorian?

We offer a culture built on high performance and deep ownership.

- Elite Talent: Work alongside the top 1% of the industry—composed exclusively of high performers who raise the bar.
- Our DNA: We are defined by action, grit, and uncompromising transparency. We move fast, take on hard problems, and choose clarity over comfort—because that’s how meaningful work gets done.
- Impact: Your work directly protects the world's most critical organizations.

Want to go deeper? Explore our[New Hire Survival Guide](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.praetorian.com/new-hire-survival-guide) to dive into Praetorian's mission, vision, values, and culture.

## About Praetorian

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Praetorian is an offensive cybersecurity company that helps enterprises identify exploitable vulnerabilities through human-validated, AI-driven attack simulations and continuous exposure management.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Nathan Sportsman (CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Offensive cybersecurity, penetration testing, attack surface management, continuous threat exposure management (CTEM)
- Target customers: B2B, Fortune 500 enterprises, government and regulated industries (FDA, GLBA, HIPAA, NERC, NYDFS, MAS TRM, PCI‑DSS)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Prevent breaches before they occur" – create a future without compromise.

## Products & Services
- **Praetorian Guard Platform**: An AI offensive security engine combining agentic AI, workflow automation, and offensive capabilities to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and guide remediation. Includes attack path mapping, continuous penetration testing, attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach & attack simulation, and cyber threat intelligence.
- **Professional Services (Penetration Testing)**:
  - Web Application, Mobile, and API Security Assessments
  - External/Internal Network Penetration Testing, Network Segmentation Testing
  - Cloud Configuration Review, Cloud Penetration Testing, Cloud Attack Path Mapping, CI/CD Assessment
  - Hardware Penetration Testing, Cryptographic/Protocol Analysis, Software Reverse Engineering, AI/LLM Security Assessment, Thick Client Testing
- **Red Team Services**: Advanced red team operations, assumed breach exercises, purple team exercises, social engineering.
- **Chariot (Managed CTEM Platform)**: An always-on managed service that combines attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach & attack simulation, continuous penetration testing, and exploit intelligence into a single unified platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Claims 70% faster MTTR, 25-50% spend reduction by consolidating security tools, and zero false positives through human validation. Serves Fortune 500 clients.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Zero false positives**: Every finding is human-verified by elite offensive security engineers.
- **Material-risk focus**: Proves exploitability, not just theoretical vulnerabilities.
- **AI-driven scale**: Combines automation with veteran human expertise for continuous coverage.
- **Elite talent**: Describes its people as the top 1% – computer scientists, engineers, and industry-recognized researchers.
- **Offense Informs Defense**: Every engagement strengthens detection and response capabilities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)**: Moving beyond traditional point-in-time tests to always-on, validated exposure management.
- **AI & Automation**: Deepening the use of agentic AI and workflow automation in the Praetorian Guard platform to scale offensive security.
- **Consolidation**: Helping enterprises replace multiple point solutions (ASM, VM, CTI, BAS, annual pen tests) with a single platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: "Powered by an engineering culture" – services professionals are security engineers, not consultants. Emphasis on real work, real value.
- **High bar for talent**: Hiring philosophy prioritizes values alignment, passion for security, cognitive capabilities, and task-relevant experience (in that order).
- **Thorough interview process**: Includes a culture assessment (DISC), logic puzzle, hands-on technical labs, and a final CEO interview focused on vision and alignment.
- **Culture values**: Humility, default to open, "yes, and" collaboration, passion for impact ("make craters"), and performance focus ("10X not 10%").
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not specified on the careers page.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company emphasizes challenging work with the industry’s best talent and a mission-driven environment.

## Sources
1. [praetorian.com](https://www.praetorian.com/)
2. [praetorian.com/careers/](https://www.praetorian.com/careers/)
3. [praetorian.com/praetorian-overview/](https://www.praetorian.com/praetorian-overview/)
4. [praetorian.com/about-us/](https://www.praetorian.com/about-us/)

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