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$236,000 – $289,000
Listed on Render’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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