Remote position, but the candidate needs to be available during US working hours (UTC-5, UTC-6, UTC-7, or UTC-8).

As a forward deployed engineer at Seaplane, you work directly with customers and the customer team. Your goal is to quickly understand the customer's needs and pain points and design and implement solutions using Seaplane technology. You are an expert in taking general customer requirements and identifying quick wins and executable POCs that show the value of Seaplane.

Your day-to-day consists of calls with new prospective customers. Writing proof of concept proposals based on customer feedback and helping new customers implement and find value with Seaplane. You will use your expert knowledge of cloud engineering and system design to help customers with their most important multi-region, multi-cloud, and edge cloud challenges.

The forward-deployed engineer is part of the customer team. We are a small but mighty team that continually learns and iterates to achieve the best results. You will have the opportunity to contribute and help build the foundation for rapid growth for the company, our customer team, and yourself.

You will love this job if

• You love working in a startup environment where things change rapidly, and you are directly responsible for its success.
• You enjoy working alongside a salesperson to discover a customer's challenges and creating a unique solution prototype using your technical expertise.
• If you have prior experience as a cloud architect creating resilient systems, but you no longer want to only spend your days writing code.
• You know everything about system design and how to apply it to hard-to-solve problems.

We’d especially love to hear from you if you have

• Prior experience working as a DevOps engineer or cloud architect.
• Understanding or experience with modern application architectures and cloud-native development practices.
• Prior experience as a forward-deployed engineer in a high-growth startup focusing on cloud technology.