# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Coder

- Company: Coder
- What the company does: Give developers a secure, governed environment to run AI coding agents at scale. Self-hosted infrastructure with full control over agent permissions, audit logging, and compliance. Backed by Bessemer and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://coder.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $152K to $246K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/coder/afb0b507-24ba-4f39-ac51-739e23ce8938
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coder-senior-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Serve as the primary technical authority for post-sales customers, guiding deployment architecture, environment design, and adoption of Coder across both human and AI development workflows Own onboarding engagements end to end, ensuring customers move from contract to productive adoption with speed and confidence

## What they're looking for

- 5 or more years of experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineering, or equivalent post-sales technical role, with a demonstrated track record of guiding enterprise customers through complex technical deployments
- Proven hands-on experience from a prior role designing and deploying cloud infrastructure on at least one major provider: AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, you have done the work and can speak to it with specificity
- 2+ years experience deploying or operating AI coding agents in a production or near-production environment: you understand how agent loops execute, where credentials live, and what governance and audit requirements look like in an enterprise context
- Ability to articulate the architectural difference between workspace-local agent tooling and a centralized agentic harness, and to explain why that distinction matters to a security or compliance stakeholder
- 2 or more years of production experience with Kubernetes: cluster design, workload scheduling, networking, storage, and operational lifecycle
- 2 or more years of experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling, you understand how enterprise teams’ structure, version, and maintain IaC at scale

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