# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Nessie

- Company: Nessie (YC F25)
- What the company does: The shared context layer for recursive companies - your work, your…. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://nessielabs.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $150K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nessie/jobs/rfwlLxQ-founding-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nessie-founding-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

You’re a builder who works at the frontier with our customers. You deploy Nessie into customer environments, build the integrations and workflows they need, and bring what you learn back into the core product. We’re a tiny team with more real customer pull than we can carry, so you’re the technical force that makes deployments real, and you wear the hats a tiny company needs. You are not the sole owner of any customer; the founders lead those relationships, and you make us faster across the board.

## What they're looking for

- The instinct to ship before it is perfect
- Extreme autonomy. We are two people. There is no manager. There is no spec. There is a problem and you figure out how to solve it
- Opinions about products you use. If you have never looked at an app and thought "this is wrong and here is how I would fix it," we are probably not a match
- Comfort with ambiguity. The product is evolving fast, and what you work on in week 1 may differ from week 4. That should excite you

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