Forge is building the world’s first AI-native DevOps workspace, a unified environment that learns from every deployment, automates runbooks, and gives engineers superpowers. We're looking for clear communicators with a breadth of DevOps skills that take pride and ownership in their work. If you crave variety, love green-field challenges, and want to shape the future of AI-powered infrastructure, you’ll thrive here.
This job is fully remote.
Qualifications
As a Forward Deployed DevOps Engineer, you’ll embed directly with companies, shipping infrastructure that keeps them moving fast without sacrificing reliability, best practices, or security.
What you’ll do
Own green-field & brown-field infra. Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, monitoring, and incident response.
Lead “day-zero” engagements. In your first week on a new account, run a lightweight discovery, draft a 30–60–90-day infra plan, and drive exec buy-in.
Ship fixes, not tickets. You’ll hold the pager, debug outages, and push code that prevents the next one.
Level-up teams. Pair-program, run brownbags, and write concise runbooks so founders can stay focused on product.
Feedback-loop back home. Capture patterns from the field to improve our internal tooling and playbooks.
You likely have
4+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.
Proven success juggling multiple projects or consulting engagements.
Deep experience with at least one major cloud plus Kubernetes.
Hands-on Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite).
Observability chops: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.
Strong fundamentals in networking, Linux, containers, and security.
(Titles and exact years matter less than demonstrated skill and learning speed.)
Nice-to-haves
Prior “forward-deployed” or consulting experience.
Experience hardening SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA environments.
Serverless, data-platform, or multi-cloud routing expertise.
Go or Python for bespoke tooling (we use both).
Top Skills
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