Forward Deployed Software Engineer - US Government

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Business Systems team keeps the company running smoothly across our global office footprint. The team owns the systems, infrastructure, automations, and day-to-day support that help Pendonauts work securely, efficiently, and at scale. As Pendo grows, this team plays a critical role in finding smarter, more scalable ways to support the business. As a Senior IT Engineer, you will own key IT infrastructure initiatives, lead Okta administration, build automations that reduce manual work, and support the SaaS tools that power Pendo’s operations. This role goes beyond ticket resolution: you will work hands-on across systems, support, automation, A/V, SaaS administration, and infrastructure improvements while partnering closely with teams across the business. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy and help make Pendo’s IT function more reliable, secure, scalable, and forward-looking. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day Okta administration: Own Okta administration as a core focus area, including SSO application implementation, onboarding and offboarding workflows, SCIM provisioning, and account lifecycle management. Build and maintain clean integrations that make access management seamless and scalable. Automation development: Use tools such as Workato, n8n, Okta Workflows, APIs, and AI tools to eliminate manual work across IT operations. Build automations for user account creation, workflow orchestration, tool integrations, and recurring support patterns. IT support: Resolve helpdesk tickets, troubleshoot network issues, and support A/V setup for meetings and events. You will own day-to-day support alongside larger initiatives, looking for repeatable patterns that can be automated or improved. User account management: Perform provisioning and deprovisioning as part of onboarding and offboarding workflows. Ensure access is accurate, timely, secure, and aligned to business needs. Infrastructure improv

The Team + The Role The Core team builds features and platform capabilities that power critical areas of the Pendo product experience. The team supports high-stakes customer use cases, shapes how systems evolve over time, and creates a more consistent experience across the platform. This work sits in complex product areas where delivery speed, system reliability, and long-term maintainability all matter. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will own complex problem spaces and drive them forward independently. You will apply strong engineering judgment to ambiguous challenges, partner closely with Product and Design, and stay accountable to outcomes, not just output. You will break large efforts into small, continuously shippable increments, bring others along with you, and leave the codebase better than you found it. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day Feature ownership: Own complex, ambiguous features end-to-end by structuring work into small, independently shippable increments. Drive delivery with clarity, strong judgment, and accountability for customer and system impact. Production engineering: Write production-ready code and define testing approaches based on risk and system impact. Use safe rollout patterns to reduce risk and enable incremental delivery. Incident response: Respond quickly when production issues arise in your area. Resolve issues and drive follow-up improvements that prevent recurrence. AI-enabled development: Use AI tools as a core part of your daily workflow for code generation, debugging, test writing, and task decomposition. Help raise the bar for how the team uses AI in development workflows. Technical collaboration: Deliver actionable code reviews, accurate documentation, and constructive contributions to technical discussions and planning sessions. Help teammates make better decisions through clear, direct input. Continuous improvement: Identify recurring friction points in code, tests, tooling, or proces

The Team + The Role The Product Design team at Pendo works closely with senior product leaders and sits at the center of product strategy and delivery. The team operates close to both the problem and the build, using LLM-assisted exploration, code-level prototyping, and customer validation before work moves into Figma for systems and polish. Designers ship across a multi-app platform with a high bar for craft, reliability, and product impact. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead design across the platform and move toward the highest-impact work. You will own projects end-to-end, from problem framing through shipping, partnering with product and engineering to make sophisticated experiences feel simple. AI-assisted workflows are part of how this team works every day, and this role is expected to use, improve, and share those workflows. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day Platform design leadership: Lead design across multiple product areas and own projects from problem framing through shipping. Partner with product and engineering to reduce complexity without losing capability, starting from customer need rather than feature requests. Prototyping and validation: Build interactive prototypes using code-adjacent tools and validate them with real users before engineering investment. Use findings to sharpen flows, surface edge cases, and improve the work before full systemization. AI-integrated workflow: Use AI tools actively across the design process, including LLMs for problem framing and brief development, Cursor and Claude for prototyping, and generative tools for faster interface exploration. Document and share prompts, patterns, and workflows with design and engineering partners. Design systems: Translate and evolve Pendo's design principles into reusable components and patterns. Identify when to extend existing systems and when to push them forward, then drive those decisions with stakeholders. Cross-functional alignment

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Technical Support Engineers are the diagnostic and strategic layer between customers and the product. This small, global team sits within Engineering and partners daily with Product, Engineering, and Customer Engineering across the US, EMEA, and APAC. The team does not operate like a help desk; it solves technical problems, strengthens customer outcomes, and turns customer signal into product insight. As a Sr. Technical Support Engineer, you will own customer issues end-to-end across Pendo’s web and mobile products, from triage and debugging to resolution, documentation, and feedback loops. You will handle break/fix issues, how-to questions, configuration guidance, bug reproduction, and complex escalations while using AI tools to accelerate research, drafting, troubleshooting, and knowledge capture. At the senior level, you will also serve as a go-to technical resource for peers and contribute to the cross-functional work that makes the support function stronger. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day Support queue ownership: You triage, diagnose, and resolve technical issues across Pendo’s web and mobile products, including break/fix, how-to, best practice, and configuration questions. You manage urgency based on customer impact and own each case until the customer’s problem is actually solved. Technical guidance: You provide targeted technical assistance on platform usage, configuration, and best practices for customers in your segment. Each engagement is scoped to the issue at hand, with clear resolution, documentation, and a path forward that helps the customer move independently. Customer signal: You translate customer pain into reproducible test cases, clear bug reports, and prioritized feedback for Product and Engineering. You also surface customer health signals and strategic gaps to Account Owners and Customer Success so the right teams can act. Knowledge at scale: You create and maintain intern

The Team + The Role Pendo's People team connects business strategy to the people systems, decisions, and leadership practices that help the company scale. The team partners across the business to build an organization that attracts, develops, and retains builders while moving with speed, clarity, and sound judgment. The Director, People Partner GTM owns the people agenda for Pendo's Revenue and Marketing organization. This role leads a small global team of People Partners, carries a direct client portfolio, partners closely with GTM leadership, and drives workforce strategy, organizational design, talent development, performance management, employee relations, and people analytics for the business. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day People strategy: Translate Pendo's People roadmap into a 3 to 6 month business unit plan for the GTM organization. Anticipate the people implications of business decisions, bring a clear point of view on priorities and sequencing, and turn strategy into visible action. Team leadership: Lead a small, globally distributed team of People Partners supporting Revenue and Marketing. Set priorities, coach team members, maintain consistency across markets, and own the senior relationships and overall performance of the GTM People Partner function. Workforce planning and hiring: Lead forward-looking workforce planning for the GTM organization by anticipating headcount needs, identifying leverage roles, and helping the business hire ahead of demand. Partner with Talent Acquisition on pipeline health, position management, and org design decisions that affect how and when roles are filled. Succession and organizational design: Build and maintain succession plans for critical GTM roles, ensuring gaps are documented, assigned, and actively addressed. Partner with GTM leaders on team structure, span of control, career frameworks, role design, promotions, and mobility decisions as the business scales. Talent develo