Forward Deployed Software Engineer

About Fable Security

AI-driven threats and human error are today’s biggest enterprise security risks. Cybercriminals don’t hack systems—they exploit people. Human errors drive 70% of security breaches, making human behavior the primary and growing attack surface. At Fable, we believe that the right tools can convert people from targets to another layer of defense.

Fable is the human risk platform that directly shapes employee behavior. Designed for simplicity and enterprise scale, our agentic platform synthesizes complex employee data, pinpoints risky behaviors, and deploys highly relevant interventions to people automatically, in real time, right where they work.

Backed by Redpoint Ventures and Greylock Partners and founded by early Abnormal Security team members, Fable is solving cybersecurity’s biggest challenge in a multi-billion-dollar market. Our team includes alumni from Meta, Twitter, Flexport, and top-tier universities like Waterloo, Columbia, Berkeley, Purdue, CMU, Stanford, UCLA, and USC. We are experiencing explosive growth, making this a career-defining opportunity to join and shape the future of security.

The Role

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE), you’ll work directly with customers to implement Fable’s platform, adapt it to their environments, and unlock measurable security outcomes. You’ll write production code, build on top of our existing platform, and solve complex technical problems—all while collaborating closely with security teams and end users.

You’ll work across the product and delivery lifecycle: scoping technical needs, shaping deployment plans, ingesting new data sources, extending product capabilities, and troubleshooting live environments. You'll also help shape our roadmap by bringing field insight and customer patterns back to the product team.

This role is ideal for engineers who want to build with purpose, partner directly with users, and see the real-world impact of their work.

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical implementation efforts for new and existing customers, including data onboarding, configuration, and feature extension

• Write production code across our stack to support use-case-specific needs, experiments, and pilots

• Work with a wide variety of structured and unstructured data sources; build reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines

• Design and implement workflows, dashboards, rules, and tooling that not only address specific customer goals but also contribute to Fable’s broader platform

• Collaborate with customers to understand their environments and drive measurable security outcomes

• Investigate edge cases, resolve technical blockers, and support the scaling of deployments

• Influence product direction by translating real-world feedback into platform improvements

About You

• 2+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in fast-moving or customer-facing environments

• Proficient in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages; comfortable working across the stack

• Strong debugging and systems thinking skills, with experience building reliable data integrations or pipelines

• Excellent communication skills; you can translate technical details into customer impact and vice versa

• You thrive in ambiguity, take ownership end-to-end, and prioritize outcomes over output

• Bonus: Experience in security, enterprise SaaS, behavioral analytics, or human-centered systems

Why Fable

• Build technology that helps organizations tackle human-driven security risk at scale

• Ship software that customers rely on daily—and see the impact immediately

• Join a tight-knit, ambitious team with deep experience in security and building enterprise products

• High-agency, low-bureaucracy environment that values judgment, speed, and clarity