Forward Deployed Engineer
Deploys and supports stateful agent infrastructure in customer-controlled environments, improving Helm-based releases, onboarding, debugging, and security practices. The role suits a new graduate with hands-on self-hosted or VPC experience, Kubernetes curiosity, Linux skills, and familiarity with language models and agents.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Manage the on-premises lifecycle, including Helm charts, upgrades, weekly releases, and rollback paths.
- Help consolidate divergent customer forks onto a supported chart with appropriate guardrails.
- Improve customer onboarding so new deployments can be completed in days rather than weeks.
- Debug across the stack, including Temporal workflows, Kubernetes initialization ordering, storage, and authentication-refresh pipelines.
- Support the security surface through CVE triage, patching, and root-cause analyses.
Requirements
- Experience building in environments you do not fully control, such as a homelab, VPC, or self-hosted environment.
- Curiosity about Kubernetes and Helm, with a desire to develop deep expertise.
- Experience building with language models and familiarity with agents and MCP.
- Comfort working in Linux.
- Ability to write clear root-cause analyses.
- A collaborative, trustworthy approach and willingness to acknowledge knowledge gaps.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with Temporal.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
- Experience with cloud secret managers.
- Experience with self-hosted delivery, including KOTS or air-gapped environments.
- Open-source contributions or hackathon wins.
Skills
Kubernetes, Helm, Linux, Temporal, Postgres, Mcp, Language Models, Vpc, Cloud Secret Managers, Kots, Air-Gapped Deployment, Cve Triage
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