Forward Deployed Engineer (up to $260k)
About the Role
This company is building a lightweight runtime that transforms AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes. Their mission is to free engineering teams from failure mechanics, allowing them to focus on business logic. The runtime is already in production at Fortune 500 enterprises, Tier 1 banks, and frontier AI startups. The team is small, founded by experienced leaders from open-source projects and large-scale infrastructure, and backed by leading investors.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical path from initial PoV/PoC enablement through production readiness and deployment.
- Work hands-on with customer engineers and OSS evaluators on integrations, reference implementations, and architecture guidance.
- Drive the transition from "PoC works" to "production-ready," including Kubernetes, cloud setup, observability, networking, security, and operational patterns.
- Support early discovery workshops, PoV planning, and participate in escalation and on-call rotations for critical customer issues.
- Feed product friction and papercuts directly back into the engineering team, contributing to docs, examples, SDKs, and the core product.
Requirements
- Full proficiency in Go or Rust, plus at least one of TypeScript, Java, or Python.
- Strong Kubernetes skills and deep observability instincts.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems in production, with an understanding of failure modes.
- Comfortable being the technical face of a product in front of sophisticated customer engineers, including Staff and Principal levels.
- Eligible to work in Europe or the US.
Why This Role
This is a rare founding Forward Deployed Engineer role at a company solving a hard problem in AI infrastructure. You’ll define the entire function, from playbook to production patterns, and work closely with both the product team and sophisticated customer engineers. Expect significant outward-facing impact and the opportunity to build a public developer brand.