# Forward Deployed Engineering Internship

**Company:** [Composio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/composio)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Helm, Linux, Temporal, Postgres, Cloud Secret Managers, Kots, Air-Gapped Deployment, Language Models, Mcp
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> This internship focuses on deploying, upgrading, and debugging stateful agent infrastructure in customer-controlled environments. Candidates should have hands-on self-hosted or cloud experience, Kubernetes and Helm familiarity, Linux skills, and experience building with language models.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work hands-on with the on-premises deployment lifecycle, including Helm charts, upgrades, weekly releases, and rollback paths.
- Help consolidate diverged customer forks onto a supported chart with appropriate guardrails.
- Improve customer onboarding so new customers can deploy 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 an interest in developing deep expertise.
- Experience building with language models and familiarity with agents and MCP.
- Comfort working in Linux.
- Ability to write clear root-cause analyses.
- Strong communication and trust-building skills, including comfort acknowledging 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.

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