Founding Deployed Engineer
About the role
We're looking for our first Founding Deployed Engineer to help bring our vision into production. You'll work directly with engineering teams building some of the world's most sophisticated distributed systems, helping them evaluate, deploy, and operate Restate at scale. Along the way, you'll influence the product, shape our engineering roadmap, and define how technical adoption works as the company grows.
What You'll Do
- Help customers build production systems
- Lead technical evaluations and proof-of-concepts
- Design production architectures with customer engineering teams
- Build integrations, reference implementations, and sample applications
- Guide customers from successful evaluation through production deployment
- Make production deployments successful
- Design Kubernetes and cloud deployment strategies
- Establish observability, networking, security, and operational best practices
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues
- Support critical customer escalations when they arise
- Improve Restate
- Contribute to documentation, tutorials, demos, and implementation guides
- Turn recurring customer questions into reusable tooling and enablement assets
- Partner closely with engineering to improve the developer experience
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for exceptional engineers who enjoy solving difficult technical problems alongside customers. You don't need to check every box, but you'll likely bring experience in many of these areas:
- Engineering
- Building or operating distributed systems
- Professional experience with Go or Rust
- Experience with TypeScript, Java, or Python
- Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Production operations, observability, and networking
- Modern backend architecture and distributed systems design
How You Work
You enjoy partnering directly with engineers to solve complex production problems. You communicate technical ideas clearly, from architecture reviews to debugging sessions. High ownership and thrive in ambiguous environments. You naturally turn one-off solutions into reusable systems, documentation, and tooling. You care deeply about developer experience, operational excellence, and elegant engineering.
Why This Role
This is a rare opportunity to build both software and the function that helps the world adopt it. You'll build it while the category itself is still taking shape. You'll influence product direction through direct customer feedback, establish how engineering teams adopt Restate, and become one of the technical leaders helping define an entirely new infrastructure category.