Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Customer Solutions team. You will be the technical authority embedded with our most complex customers, guiding them through deployment, architecture, onboarding, and the adoption of agentic development workflows. You bring deep hands-on experience from prior roles and use that depth to advise, design repeatable patterns, and drive customer outcomes end to end. You operate autonomously, own the technical success of your customers, and bring their experience back to shape how Coder builds and delivers.

This is not an execution-only role. You are equally comfortable doing deep technical work with a customer and stepping back to design the repeatable pattern behind it. You are energized by ambiguity, motivated by customer outcomes, and capable of influencing organizational change alongside the technical work.

This position is required to sit in the Eastern Time Zone.

What You'll Do

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

Lead Get Well engagements where architecture decisions, rollout patterns, or organizational dynamics are limiting customer health or growth

Help customers implement the technical and organizational changes required to adopt agentic development practices at scale

Design and document repeatable delivery patterns across onboarding, architecture, and adoption that can scale across customer segments

Design and recommend reference architectures tailored to each customer's cloud environment, security posture, and organizational constraints

Translate customer environment complexity into clear guidance on networking, ingress, identity, and infrastructure patterns

Anticipate technical and operational risks, escalate to the right internal stakeholders, and track issues through to resolution

Contribute to technical documentation, architecture guides, how-to resources, and statements of work that extend your impact across the customer base

Capture structured product feedback from customer deployments and advocate directly with engineering and product teams for roadmap and usability improvements

What We'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

Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, including networking fundamentals: ingress controllers, proxies, load balancers, and DNS resolution in cloud-native environments

Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design and DevOps practices; you understand how code moves from commit to running workload in an enterprise context

Working knowledge of cloud security and identity: IAM patterns, network segmentation, secrets management, and compliance-relevant controls