Full-Time
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Customer Solutions
Updated on 9/4/2026
Coder
501-1,000 employees
Cloud-based platform for building, testing software
Compensation Overview
$152k - $246k/yr
Remote in USA + 1 more
More locations: Remote in Canada
Remote
Must work in the Eastern Time Zone.
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- Five or more years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Platform Engineering, or an equivalent post-sales technical role, including guiding enterprise customers through complex technical deployments.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure on at least one major provider: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Two or more years of experience deploying or operating artificial intelligence coding agents in a production or near-production environment, including understanding agent loops, credential storage, governance, and enterprise audit requirements.
- Ability to explain the architectural difference between workspace-local agent tooling and a centralized agentic harness, including the security and compliance implications.
- Two or more years of production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster design, workload scheduling, networking, storage, and operational lifecycle.
- Two or more years of experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling, including structuring, versioning, and maintaining infrastructure as code at enterprise scale.
- Understanding of Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals, including ingress controllers, proxies, load balancers, and Domain Name System resolution in cloud-native environments.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline design and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud security and identity, including identity and access management patterns, network segmentation, secrets management, and compliance-relevant controls.
- Understanding of observability practices, including logging, metrics, and tracing across distributed systems.
- Ability to design repeatable delivery patterns rather than only solving one-off problems.
- Comfort working through organizational and workflow change alongside technical change with customers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to senior infrastructure teams and producing clear architecture documents.
- Ability to understand and account for customer constraints, timelines, and organizational realities.
- Ability to work independently in a startup environment.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for post-sales customers by guiding deployment architecture, environment design, and adoption of Coder across human and artificial intelligence development workflows.
- Own onboarding engagements end to end, moving customers from contract to productive adoption.
- Lead Get Well engagements where architecture decisions, rollout patterns, or organizational dynamics limit 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 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 guidance on networking, ingress, identity, and infrastructure patterns.
- Anticipate technical and operational risks, escalate them to appropriate internal stakeholders, and track issues through resolution.
- Contribute to technical documentation, architecture guides, how-to resources, and statements of work.
- Capture structured product feedback from customer deployments and advocate with engineering and product teams for roadmap and usability improvements.
- Experience at both early-stage startups and larger software organizations.
- Background as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Platform Engineer before moving into a customer-facing role.
- Familiarity with regulated environments, including air-gapped deployments, network isolation, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or DORA requirements.
- Experience with disaster recovery design and multi-region availability patterns.
- Cloud cost optimization experience, including rightsizing, reserved capacity, and FinOps practices.
- Experience with Tailscale or similar overlay networking tools.
- Kubernetes certification, such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS.
- Open-source contributions.
- Experience with Backstage.io or similar internal developer portals and platform tooling.
- Prior work on or alongside a developer platform or platform engineering team.
- Experience introducing new operating models or delivery patterns across post-sales or go-to-market teams.
- Experience with LLM gateway or proxy infrastructure, such as LiteLLM or OpenRouter, in a multi-team or enterprise context.
- Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, session audit requirements, or SIEM integration for AI workloads.
- Experience designing human-in-the-loop breakpoints or escalation patterns for autonomous agent workflows.
Coder provides a cloud-based platform for software development teams to move building, testing, and compiling code to cloud servers. Its service lets developers onboard quickly and work in the cloud, with source code and data kept secure behind the client's firewall. Access is via tiered subscription plans that scale with usage and features. The platform aims to accelerate development workflows by offloading work from local machines to cloud infrastructure, improving efficiency and security for enterprises. Unlike typical local-development setups, Coder focuses on cloud-based execution, centralized management, and strong data security to support teams and large organizations.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$167.9M
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- May 2026 Coder Agents beta shipped model-agnostic AI workflows without leaving network boundaries.
- Agent Relay private preview targets banks, government agencies, and defense programs immediately.
- KKR’s deployment across 500 engineers validates enterprise buying behavior and internal adoption.
What critics are saying
- Cursor dependence is concentrated; if Cursor shifts strategy, Agent Relay demand collapses.
- Incredibuild’s Islo and other 2026 agent-sandbox launches commoditize Coder’s security pitch.
- AWS, Azure, and GitHub can bundle native secure dev environments, crushing standalone margins.
What makes Coder unique
- Coder’s self-hosted, cloud-agnostic workspace layer keeps code inside customer-controlled infrastructure.
- April 2026 Series C with KKR funded enterprise AI governance and global expansion.
- September 2026 Agent Relay with SpaceXAI runs Cursor agents inside regulated customer networks.
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Medical, dental, & vision
401k with 4% match
Parental leave
$250 Health & wellness monthly stipend
Flexible PTO
Remote work option
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↑ 5%Coder has partnered with SpaceXAI to launch Coder Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment enabling AI coding agents to operate within enterprise infrastructure. The collaboration allows Cursor Cloud Agents to run inside Coder workspaces on customer-controlled networks, addressing security and compliance requirements that have prevented regulated industries from adopting AI coding tools. The system keeps source code, secrets, and internal services on customer-controlled machines whilst maintaining the Cursor user experience. Agent environments are sandboxed and ephemeral, with every action logged for compliance reporting. Gartner projects 80% of enterprise software engineers will need to upskill for generative AI by 2027. Coder Agent Relay for Cursor is currently in private preview with design partners, with additional agent provider partnerships planned.
Coder and SpaceXAI collaborate to bring agentic coding inside the world's most regulated enterprises. Coder Agent Relay lets banks, government agencies, and global enterprises run Cursor's cloud agents entirely on their own infrastructure, opening a market that vendor-hosted tools have never been able to serve. AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Coder today announced Coder Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment for cloud coding agents, with SpaceXAI as its launch partner. Cursor Cloud Agents can now run inside Coder workspaces on infrastructure the customer already operates. Developers keep the Cursor experience they know - app, web, and mobile - while Cursor continues to run the agent loop, including inference and planning. Tool calls execute in Coder environments on the customer's network, so source code, secrets, and internal services stay on machines they control. The market AI coding has not been able to reach Demand for AI coding agents inside large enterprises has exploded, and adoption in regulated industries hasn't kept pace, but not for the reason most people assume. Developers in these organizations want the same tools everyone else has. The blocker is the deployment model. Banks, defense agencies, government institutions, and global enterprises operate under requirements that vendor-hosted tools can't satisfy: source code needs controlled access, execution environments need security and governance that prevent data exfiltration, and every action needs to be auditable. Those requirements have kept the best AI coding tools out of the environments that stand to gain the most from them. Gartner projects that 80% of enterprise software engineers will need to upskill for generative AI by 2027. In the most regulated sectors, security and compliance review still decide which tools ever reach a developer. That is precisely the market Coder opens. Coder is the self-hosted infrastructure the world's most demanding organizations already trust to run development inside their own walls. Pairing that foundation with SpaceXAI's agentic experience turns a market that has been closed to vendor-hosted AI tools into one the two companies can finally enter together. AI needs an operating layer The modern enterprise stack runs in layers: application, data, compute. AI fits none of them. It touches all three and belongs to none, which is why organizations everywhere hit the same wall the moment AI moves from pilots into production. The AI Operating Layer is the layer AI requires: where AI runs inside the organization, on its own infrastructure, under its own policies, visible to its own teams. Built right, it enforces five things: data stays inside the boundary, every task sees only what it was granted, only approved models run, every action leaves a record, and spend is capped before it accumulates. That is what ends the trade-off AI programs keep being forced into, speed or safety. Teams adopt whatever tools make them fastest, agents work with real autonomy, and the layer underneath holds. The collaboration extends Coder's ability to deliver: Cursor's agents now execute within the enterprise-controlled governed environments, bringing autonomous development to the industries where the layer matters most. "Enterprises never rejected AI agents. They rejected the deployment model. The model was never the bottleneck. What has kept this work out of production is everything that comes after the pilot: where the code runs, who has access, what the agent can reach, and what record exists afterward. Those are infrastructure questions, and Coder was built to answer them. Cursor builds a coding experience developers love. We give it the ground to run on inside a bank, an agency, or a defense program," said Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder. What Coder Agent Relay delivers The collaboration pairs a joint go-to-market motion with a direct product integration that gives enterprises greater security, governance, and control over cloud-hosted coding agents. Each Coder workspace can start a Cursor worker that opens an outbound connection to Cursor. Platform teams can provision and scale those workspaces the same way they already manage developer environments, so regulated organizations can deploy Cloud Agents at scale next to private code and custom hardware without giving up Cursor's product surface or the security and standardization of Coder workspaces. * Your perimeter, your rules. Workspaces run on the customer's cloud, VPC, or on-premises environment. Code does not leave, and network egress policy is set once by the platform team and enforced uniformly across every workspace, developer or agent. Air-gapped deployment is available where no external access is acceptable. * Boundaries by architecture, not by trust. Agent environments are sandboxed, ephemeral, and scoped to a single task. A prompt injection that would push an agent toward unauthorized resources is blocked at the environment layer, not left to the model to refuse. * Policy as infrastructure. Approved models, permitted data sources, and available resources are defined once at the environment level and inherited by every workspace that follows, without per-team reconfiguration. * A complete record. Every run produces a log of what the agent accessed, executed, changed, and was blocked from doing, so compliance reporting for any time window does not have to be reconstructed by hand. "Engineering teams want to build with Cursor. Enterprise security policies require that sensitive information not leave its own infrastructure. Coder provides those teams a path to run Cursor inside environments they fully control, giving developers the experience they want while maintaining the security controls they need," said Toni Adams, Sr Director, Partnerships at SpaceXAI. The foundation for enterprise AI development SpaceXAI is the first of several partnerships Coder is building around a simple idea: the industry's best AI coding tools should run inside any organization, on any infrastructure, without the organization giving up control to get them. SpaceXAI is the first agent provider with Agent Relay, and the integration is designed to extend self-hosted execution to more over time. Enterprises have been here before. When cloud moved infrastructure out of the building, companies stood up platform teams to govern how it was provisioned, secured, and paid for. AI is forcing the same mandate now, with a twist: much of the work is coming back inside the organization's own walls. The principle hasn't changed; only the technology has. Coder is where enterprises build the layer it runs on. Availability Coder Agent Relay for Cursor is currently in private preview with design partners. If security requirements have kept Cursor out of reach, visit coder.com/cursor for docs and more information about bringing it inside your enterprise. About Coder Coder is the AI Operating Layer for the enterprise: self-hosted, model- and cloud-agnostic infrastructure that runs AI inside the organization's own environment, under its own policies, and in full view of its own teams. Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies use Coder to give developers and autonomous agents one governed workspace, moving source code off laptops and onto centrally managed infrastructure that platform teams can secure, audit, and scale. With more than 125,000 GitHub stars and trusted by the world's most regulated organizations, Coder is built for the agentic era. Learn more at coder.com.
ChannelVision announces 2026 Visionary Spotlight award winners. By: Moshe Beauford, Editor ChannelVision has announced the winners of its 2026 Visionary Spotlight Awards, recognizing companies and individuals for advancements, deployments and contributions across the technology channel. The awards cover a broad range of channel categories, including customer service, emerging technology, AI, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, CCaaS, UCaaS, managed services and network infrastructure. Freshworks, Fusion Connect, NHC, Panasonic Connect North America, Solutions Express, Telarus, Telesystem and Zultys were recognized for Customer Service. The Emerging Technology Breakthrough category included Aditum Connect, Clarus Communications, Commio, Contrivian, CustomerXR, Entro Security, Granite Telecommunications, Minerva Networks, National Retail Solutions, Picus Security and Telesystem. AireSpring, NHC and Telinta received recognition for Best Service Delivery Teams, while TitanNGN, the white-label division of White Label Communications, was recognized for Channel Deployment of the Year. The awards also highlighted channel program investments. ACS Cloud Partners, BCN, Cox Business, D&H Distributing, FluentStream, GoTo Technologies, GTT, Legacy Investing, Lumen Technologies, NHC, Panasonic Connect North America, Schneider Electric, Solutions Express and Yeastar were recognized for Channel Programs of the Year. GTT received the CSP Network Infrastructure Innovation of the Year award. Clarus Communications, IP Fabric, Laserfiche, MetTel and Spectrotel Holding were recognized for Digital Transformation Achievements, while Cellhub, Clarus Communications and Granite Telecommunications received Top Innovation Awards. "Its awards recognize some of the most groundbreaking services and deployments the channel and the industry has to offer. And innovations like Cellhub's AI-driven network design and cost analysis platforms are superb examples of the types of services that will drive its digital environments forward, in the channel and beyond, Berge Kaprelian, President and CEO of ChannelVision Magazine told TR. AI and emerging technologies featured prominently in the Business Technology Breakthrough awards. Coder Technologies, Intezer, Picus Security and Plugable were recognized for AI Implementation. Other categories recognized companies for business mobility, cloud infrastructure, contact center technology, cybersecurity, managed services, SD-WAN, IT service management and unified communications. First Orion and Transaction Network Services were recognized in the Contact Center/CCaaS category, while Momentum and Yeastar received recognition for Unified Communications/UCaaS. Picus Security appeared in both the AI Implementation and Cybersecurity categories. The Service Provider Technology Breakthrough awards recognized innovation across analytics and AI, back-office and OSS, cloud and data center infrastructure, emerging markets, OTT applications, RMM/PSA and wholesale broadband. Mission Cloud, a CDW Company, Netrio, Spectrotel and Clarus Communications were recognized for Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Synamedia received the Back Office & OSS Innovation award, while Schneider Electric was recognized for Cloud Computing & Data Center Innovation. Other winners included Zenlayer for Emerging Markets Deployment, Arelion, GTT and Ritalia Funding for Most Responsive Supplier Channel Team, Reinvent Telecom for OTT Applications, and Splashtop and White Label Communications for RMM/PSA. The awards also recognized contributions beyond technology and deployments. Ben Bronston, The CommLaw Group/The Commpliance Group and Sterling Business Law were recognized in the Telecom Legal & Regulatory category, while ZeroOutages 500 received the Wholesale Broadband & Capacity award. The 2026 awards reflect the breadth of the channel, spanning traditional communications and infrastructure markets while highlighting the growing role of AI, cybersecurity, cloud and managed services in partner-led technology deployments.
Coder ranked No. 525 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 List of America's fastest-growing private companies. * 1 hr ago AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Coder, the leader in self-hosted AI development infrastructure for the enterprise, today announced it has been ranked No. 525 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The recognition honors companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs and shaping the future of the economy. Coder's inclusion reflects the growing demand for secure infrastructure that can support both developers and AI coding agents at scale. As organizations move AI-assisted development into production, they need greater control over where agents run, what data and models they can access, and how their activity is governed. Coder addresses this need with self-hosted AI development infrastructure that unifies development environments, AI governance, and autonomous agents in a single enterprise-controlled system. This helps organizations adopt AI without sacrificing security, compliance, flexibility or visibility. "In a world where everyone is a coder, success will be defined by teams that can turn AI experimentation into a durable business advantage," said Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder. "Our focus is to help organizations move beyond isolated AI use cases and establish a new operating model for how software is built, governed, and optimized, whether it's a software engineer or an HR manager who's creating it." This year's Inc. 5000 list includes companies ranging from AI and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, consumer products and professional services. Coder, along with the other businesses on the list, is expanding its impact, creating jobs and demonstrating how entrepreneurial ambition continues to fuel the U.S. economy. Coder was also ranked No. 15 on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies Regional list in the Southwest. About Coder Coder is the leading platform for AI development Infrastructure, enabling enterprises to securely run human and AI-driven development workflows in consistent, governed environments. Coder provides self-hosted, agent-ready workspaces that unify developer productivity and platform governance. With Coder, enterprises can confidently evolve from human-only development to AI-assisted and autonomous workflows - without sacrificing security, compliance, or performance. Learn more at coder.com. Inc. 5000 List Methodology Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent - not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies - as of December 31, 2025. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2025 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. About Inc. Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping its future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com. Media Contact Geena Pickering Look Left Marketing
Ninja IT: Gari Singh on the AI infrastructure nobody invited the platform team to. Shadow IT was the polite version. Coder used to worry about a developer spinning up a rogue cloud account or sneaking some unsanctioned SaaS past the security team. Annoying, sure. But it moved at human speed, and you could mostly catch up to it. Gari Singh has a better name for what's coming next. He calls it Ninja IT in the latest episode of the [Dev]olution Podcast. Gari's a product manager at Google Cloud working on the containers and Kubernetes runtimes carrying a big chunk of the world's AI workloads, and before that he put in 15 years at IBM as a distinguished engineer and a blockchain CTO. So he's watched three infrastructure waves wash through the enterprise. When he describes the current one, it's not agents quietly bending the rules. It's agents executing in secret, in their own little groups, wiring themselves to systems at a speed no human approval chain was built to keep up with. (He coins it around 19:10.) Shadow IT at least waited for a person. This doesn't. And here's the part that should make a platform engineer sit up. Deloitte's 2026 State of AI survey found that close to three-quarters of companies plan to deploy agentic AI within two years, but only 21% have a mature model for governing it. So the stampede is already in motion, and four out of five companies are running into it without the controls to hold the line. Let's be honest about what makes this hard. An agent doesn't sit there waiting for instructions like a command line that runs once and dies. It runs in a loop, calling the model, picking tools, acting on what comes back, going again. Point it at a problem and it'll reach for every tool in the box to solve it. If Bash is on the machine, it'll use Bash. Nobody told it not to. So what does a platform engineer actually do about it on Monday morning? That's the back half of the latest episode of the [Dev]olution Podcast, and Gari's answer is refreshingly un-fancy. It isn't "buy a firewall" and it isn't "ban the agents." It's three specific things you can start this week, and the third one is the one that'll get under your skin: go build one of these things yourself and watch what it does when you're not looking. (He walks through the checklist around 44:11.) Also on the table: why he thinks MCP servers are the new SOAP, not the new HTTP, and what a no-op user mapping in a container has to do with surviving the next breach. If agent governance, infrastructure at machine speed, and a Google PM cheerfully telling you to go scare yourself sound like your kind of conversation, subscribe. New episode every two weeks. Field CTO at Coder and host of the [Dev]olution podcast Nicky Pike spent 20+ years making developers' lives easier at some of tech's biggest names before joining Coder. From launching Xbox Live to rebuilding how CVS Health develops software, he's helped shape developer productivity and team experiences at Microsoft, Dell, and VMware/Broadcom Tanzu. A respected voice in the Cloud Foundry community and regular conference speaker, Nicky has a talent for making cloud-native development and platform engineering actually make sense to humans.