Coder builds secure cloud development environments for enterprises adopting AI-assisted software development. Its platform gives developers flexible workspaces while helping platform and security teams govern infrastructure, access, and agent activity.
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Guide complex enterprise customers through Coder deployments, cloud architecture, onboarding, and the adoption of governed AI development workflows.
- Salary
- $160,000–$246,000/year, depending on location tier, plus equity and bonus
- Commitment
- Full-time
- Remote region
- Remote · United States
- Time-zone overlap
- Eastern Time Zone
- Engagement
- Full-time employee
- Duration
- Permanent
About this role
This customer-facing engineering role serves as the technical authority for complex post-sales deployments. It owns onboarding and recovery engagements, recommends reference architectures, and helps customers adapt cloud infrastructure, security controls, and operating practices for both human developers and AI coding agents.
The engineer will translate networking, identity, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and compliance constraints into practical deployment guidance. The role also turns individual customer work into reusable delivery patterns, technical documentation, and structured product feedback for Coder's engineering and product teams.
Role requirements and focus
What you’ll work on
- Move enterprise customers from contract to productive adoption through well-designed architectures and technically sound onboarding.
- Create repeatable deployment and governance patterns that improve customer outcomes while informing Coder's product roadmap.
What they’re looking for
- At least five years in forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, platform engineering, or an equivalent customer-facing technical role, including hands-on cloud-infrastructure work.
- Production experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code, plus experience operating AI coding agents and explaining their security, governance, identity, networking, and observability requirements to enterprise stakeholders.
Skills and focus
- Platform & DevOps
- Full-time employee
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Cloud infrastructure
- AI coding agents
- Cloud security
- Solutions architecture
Useful context
Specialty
Platform & DevOps
Work type
Full-time employee
Source
Coder / Ashby
Last verified
Sep 12
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