Forward Deployed Full Stack Engineer (Active Secret Clearance) jobs in United States
TribalScale
Responsibilities
- Embed with the client team. Work on site and remotely with end users, product owners, and the client's technical and security teams to understand their workflows firsthand
- Build full stack, end to end. Ship production features across the front end, back end, data layer, and infrastructure. You own a feature from the first conversation through deployment
- Deploy into secure, constrained environments. Get software running in on-prem, government cloud, or restricted networks, where the tooling and internet access you're used to may not be available
- Turn ambiguous needs into working software. Prototype quickly, put something real in front of users, and iterate with them. Don't wait for a perfect requirements doc
- Integrate AI where it earns its place. Build LLM-powered features and agentic workflows that fit the client's security and data-handling constraints, including working with self-hosted or approved models
- Work within the security process. Write code and documentation that hold up under security review, and partner with the client's ISSO and compliance teams on authorization requirements
- Be the bridge back to TribalScale. Bring field insight to our broader engineering and product teams, and pull in TribalScale specialists when the engagement needs them
- Turn loosely defined client needs into clear, executable technical plans
- Deliver AI-enabled products that perform reliably outside of controlled demonstrations
- Establish evaluation and observability practices that make quality measurable and regressions visible
- Improve agent behavior by refining harnesses, loops, tools, graphs, context, and safeguards—not only by changing prompts or models
- Help client teams understand what their AI systems can do, where they can fail, and how they should be operated responsibly
- Create reusable technical patterns that accelerate future TribalScale engagements
- Become a trusted partner who can navigate uncertainty, solve difficult technical problems, and help promising ideas reach production
Preferred
- Kubernetes or OpenShift is a strong plus
- Government regions (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) are a plus
- Prior forward deployed, field engineering, or embedded consulting experience
- Experience deploying into air-gapped or disconnected environments
- Familiarity with NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO processes, DISA STIGs, or FedRAMP
- A DoD 8140/8570-aligned certification (e.g. CompTIA Security+)
- Experience building with LLMs: RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation, or running open-weight models on approved infrastructure
- An active TS or TS/SCI clearance
Benefits
- Work on site and remotely with end users, product owners, and the client's technical and security teams.
- Glassdoor
- 3.3
- TribalScale is a global innovation partner that helps enterprises adapt and thrive in the digital era..
- Toronto, Ontario, CAN
- http://www.tribalscale.com/
- Growth Stage
- Leadership Team
- Sheetal Jaitly
- Chief Executive Officer
- Leo Giel
- Head of BFSI
- Recent News
- EIN Presswire
- TribalScale Appoints Leo Giel as Head of BFSI to Lead AI Transformation Across Financial Services
- 2026-07-21
- PRLog
- Finscale Vol. 2 Is Here — The Future of Finance Isn't Coming, It's Already Arrived
- 2025-09-24
- TribalScale Launches FinScale: A New Digital Magazine Shaping the Future of Financial Services and Innovation
- 2025-05-05
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Qualifications
- An active US Secret clearance (or higher) and the ability to maintain it
- US citizenship is required
- 5+ years of professional full stack development, shipping production software that real users rely on
- Strong front-end skills in TypeScript and a modern framework (React preferred)
- Strong back-end skills in at least one of Python, Node.js, Java, or Go, plus REST and/or GraphQL API design
- Relational database experience (PostgreSQL or similar), including data modeling and query performance
- Docker is a must
- Cloud experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- You've worked directly with end users or customer stakeholders, and you can explain technical tradeoffs in plain language
- You already use AI coding tools in your day-to-day work and know where they help and where they don't
- You can make progress, and make sensible calls, without a fully formed spec
- React
- Kubernetes or OpenShift is a strong plus
- Government regions (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) are a plus
- Prior forward deployed, field engineering, or embedded consulting experience
- Experience deploying into air-gapped or disconnected environments
- Familiarity with NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO processes, DISA STIGs, or FedRAMP
- A DoD 8140/8570-aligned certification (e.g. CompTIA Security+)
- Experience building with LLMs: RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation, or running open-weight models on approved infrastructure
- An active TS or TS/SCI clearance
- 5+ years of professional full stack development, shipping production software that real users rely on.
Required skills
- AWS, Air-Gapped Environment Deployment, Azure, Client Stakeholder Communication, CompTIA Security+, DISA STIGs, Docker, FedRAMP, GCP, Go, GraphQL API Design, Java, Kubernetes, NIST 800-53, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, REST API Design, RMF/ATO, React, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), TypeScript
Preferred skills
- An active TS or TS/SCI clearance, Kubernetes or OpenShift is a strong plus
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