Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 June 12

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $150k - $211k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Coder

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11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🔐 Security

SaaS • Enterprise • Security

Coder is a company that provides an open-source self-hosted cloud development environment (CDE) platform. The platform allows organizations to deploy development environments across various infrastructures such as VMs, Kubernetes, and cloud services, facilitating secure, fast, and flexible coding solutions. Coder focuses on increasing developer productivity by enabling rapid deployment of fully configured cloud environments, optimizing resource use, and streamlining coding operations for developers, data engineers, and scientists. It enhances security and privacy for development environments by separating desktop environments, allowing safe third-party access, and implementing enterprise-grade security protocols. Coder is SOC2 Type II certified and supports a customizable, enterprise-scalable experience with self-hosting and open-source solutions.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary technical authority for post-sales customers, guiding deployment architecture, environment design, and adoption of Coder across both human and AI development workflows • Own onboarding engagements end to end, ensuring customers move from contract to productive adoption with speed and confidence • Lead Get Well engagements where architecture decisions, rollout patterns, or organizational dynamics are limiting customer health or growth • Help customers implement the technical and organizational changes required to adopt agentic development practices at scale • Design and document repeatable delivery patterns across onboarding, architecture, and adoption that can scale across customer segments • Design and recommend reference architectures tailored to each customer's cloud environment, security posture, and organizational constraints • Translate customer environment complexity into clear guidance on networking, ingress, identity, and infrastructure patterns • Anticipate technical and operational risks, escalate to the right internal stakeholders, and track issues through to resolution • Contribute to technical documentation, architecture guides, how-to resources, and statements of work that extend your impact across the customer base • Capture structured product feedback from customer deployments and advocate directly with engineering and product teams for roadmap and usability improvements

🎯 Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineering, or equivalent post-sales technical role, with a demonstrated track record of guiding enterprise customers through complex technical deployments • Proven hands-on experience from a prior role designing and deploying cloud infrastructure on at least one major provider: AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure; you have done the work and can speak to it with specificity • 2+ years experience deploying or operating AI coding agents in a production or near-production environment: you understand how agent loops execute, where credentials live, and what governance and audit requirements look like in an enterprise context • Ability to articulate the architectural difference between workspace-local agent tooling and a centralized agentic harness, and to explain why that distinction matters to a security or compliance stakeholder • 2 or more years of production experience with Kubernetes: cluster design, workload scheduling, networking, storage, and operational lifecycle • 2 or more years of experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling; you understand how enterprise teams’ structure, version, and maintain IaC at scale • Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, including networking fundamentals: ingress controllers, proxies, load balancers, and DNS resolution in cloud-native environments • Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design and DevOps practices; you understand how code moves from commit to running workload in an enterprise context • Working knowledge of cloud security and identity: IAM patterns, network segmentation, secrets management, and compliance-relevant controls • Understanding of observability practices including logging, metrics, and tracing across distributed systems • Demonstrated ability to design repeatable delivery patterns, not just solve one-off problems • Comfort working through organizational and workflow change alongside technical change with customers • Strong verbal and written communication skills: you can hold a room with a senior infrastructure team and produce a clear architecture document without those being separate skills • High customer empathy: you understand that the best technical solution does not always fit a customer's constraints, timeline, or organizational reality • Self-directed, analytically minded, and comfortable operating with full autonomy in a startup environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity • Offers Bonus