# Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring organization: [Render](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/render)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/06db2b88-4f2a-4bf0-beea-e8d4559a1141

Listed on Render's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: SF or Remote (US/Canada)
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 236000 – 289000 USD per year

## Summary

Render seeks an experienced field engineer to be their first Forward Deployed Engineer, serving as a dedicated technical partner to their largest customers and fastest-growing AI startups. This role combines hands-on architecture and migration work—particularly database expertise—with customer success and product feedback responsibilities while establishing the playbook for the function.

_Our summary, not Render's wording._

## Skills named

Autoscaling, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking, PostgreSQL

## Required

- 8+ years in customer-facing engineering roles (forward deployed, solutions, customer, or professional services)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with ability to write production code
- Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge including containers, CI/CD, networking, and autoscaling
- Deep PostgreSQL and database expertise including schema design, performance tuning, and data migrations
- AI fluency and understanding of LLM application architectures
- Strong communication skills across all levels
- Self-directed with comfort operating in ambiguity
- Understanding of how technical work connects to revenue

## Nice to have

- Experience migrating from Heroku, AWS, or other cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience building AI and LLM applications including RAG pipelines and agent frameworks
- Prior experience as first hire in a role or founding member of a new program

Apply on Render's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/render/b29de212-fcca-4b5d-8640-a165b23d5d6c/application