> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure and Deployment Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/24a344afd2901f2a Preql posts a FDE role to integrate and configure the product in US with no pay posted. Forward Deployed Engineer owning installation, security, upgrades, and health of Preql's self-hosted software in regulated enterprise customer environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Preql](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/preql) Posted Aug 10, 2026 by Preql · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted US Remote Full-time Forward Deployed Engineer owning installation, security, upgrades, and health of Preql's self-hosted software in regulated enterprise customer environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F24a344afd2901f2a&placement=top) - [View posting at Preql](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/preql/4b4808ad-a208-44e1-94ed-1ec4e44d7251/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Integrates and configures it Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Configuration only - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The work is remote from the US. Can you work from the US? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: US - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Employment type**: Full-time ## More like this [Seqera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/seqera) ### [Technical Solutions Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/79fca284ae29c806) US Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [Alkira, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alkira-inc) ### [SR Lead Solution Architect FDE (West Coast)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d736ac78cf16edb6) US Remote 2w ago $123,991–$216,482 [Capgemini](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/capgemini) ### [Resident Solution Architect (RSA)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/42b598eea64bcbc6) US Remote 2mo ago $73,150–$174,000 - [Other jobs at Preql (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/preql) ## The job description from Preql Posted by Preql on Aug 10, 2026 ### About Preql Preql helps enterprises clean, unify, and govern messy internal data so it actually works for AI, analytics, and reporting. We work with large organizations navigating complex data environments and high-stakes operational workflows. Based in New York, our team comes from data infrastructure, AI, and enterprise software. ### How we work We’re a small team with little bureaucracy. Leadership expects individuals to take ownership, move quickly, and make good decisions for the company with support from their teammates. The curious do well here, are comfortable operating in ambiguity, and are willing to form opinions and act on their convictions instead of waiting for instructions. ### The role We ship self-hosted software into regulated enterprises. That means every deployment involves someone else's Kubernetes cluster, someone else's identity provider, someone else's network policy, and a security team that has to sign off before any of it runs. You will own how Preql gets installed, secured, upgraded, and kept healthy in customer environments. ### What you will own - Installation and configuration of Preql in customer environments: our Docker images and Helm charts, deployment into customer managed Kubernetes across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premise - Networking, identity, and access setup: private connectivity, SSO and SAML, IAM and role design, warehouse permissions, secrets management - The deployment architecture for each account, including choosing the right configuration and making sure what is scoped in the SOW is what actually gets built - Navigating customer IT environments to proactively uncover and resolve potential blockers - Enterprise security and compliance review: questionnaires, data handling and residency requirements, architecture walkthroughs with customer security teams, and the escalations that come with regulated buyers - Production health in customer environments: monitoring, upgrades, and first response when something breaks, rather than escalating straight to product engineering - Release and versioning discipline that keeps every customer on a known, supportable configuration - Runbooks, install automation, and reference architecture documentation that make each deployment faster than the last ### What success looks like - **90 days:** you have run an install end to end without product engineering in the room, and you can walk a customer's security team through our architecture yourself - **6 months:** install time for a comparable customer has dropped measurably, every account is on a known version, and there is a runbook that did not exist before - **12 months:** deployment is a repeatable process rather than a project, and product engineers are not being pulled into customer environments ### What we are looking for - 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering, shipping into production environments you did not control - Docker and Kubernetes in production - Depth in at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP, and a working understanding of the constraints in the others - Networking and identity in enterprise settings: VPCs and private connectivity, SSO and SAML, IAM and role design, secrets management - CI/CD, observability, and incident response - High SQL and data infrastructure literacy - Comfort working directly with customers, including scoping, pushing back, and delivering bad news early - High tolerance for ambiguity. Early deployments will not have a runbook, and you will write the runbook ### Strong signals - You have packaged and shipped self-hosted or customer managed software, not just SaaS - You have carried a deployment through a bank or other regulated buyer's security review and kept the project moving while it was in flight - Familiarity with enterprise data infrastructure and the finance systems around it [View posting at Preql](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/preql/4b4808ad-a208-44e1-94ed-1ec4e44d7251/application) ## About Preql AI-powered data platform that cleans, reconciles, and semantically models enterprise financial and operational data for reliable reporting and AI workflows. 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