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Forward Deployed Engineer

AI summary of the role

Render's first Forward Deployed Engineer will provide hands-on technical partnership to strategic accounts and run onboarding intensives for high-growth AI startups.

What you’ll do

  • Partner hands-on with strategic customers across architecture, migrations, delivery, and technical escalations
  • Lead Postgres architecture, performance tuning, replication, and production data migrations
  • Run onboarding intensives and drive production activation and expansion in strategic accounts
  • Own ongoing technical relationships through health reviews, roadmap sessions, incident follow-up, and RCAs

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years in a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role
  • Production-quality software engineering and hands-on work in customer codebases
  • Deep cloud infrastructure experience spanning containers, CI/CD, networking, and autoscaling
  • Deep Postgres expertise including schema design, performance tuning, replication, and data migrations

Technologies

Postgres · Heroku · AWS · CI/CD · RAG pipelines · agent frameworks · LLM applications · containers · autoscaling

About Render

Cloud platform for deploying full-stack, multi-service, AI-native apps with autoscaling, persistent compute, and built-in observability.

Series C · 100–200 people

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