Airweave
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
This posting was open on Airweave's own careers board when we last checked it.
- Employer
- Airweave
- Location
- Amsterdam, North Holland, NL
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 3+ years
- Pay band
- €80K – €100K
- Team
- Backend
When we saw it
- First seen 2026-07-23 — the first scan of ours that found it
- Last seen open 2026-07-23
- Archived 2026-07-23 — when we saved this copy
Found via Y Combinator Work at a Startup.
Skills the posting named
Kubernetes
From the posting
We're looking for a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with our most important customers, including **one of the world's leading AI labs**, and make Airweave work in their environments. This is not a support role. Forward deployed means you're the bridge between what we've built and what customers actually need. You'll be embedded with enterprise teams, understanding their infrastructure, data sources, and constraints. You'll solve problems that turn into product features. You'll spend time on-site with enterprises, ship code that solves their specific problems, and make sure Airweave delivers in environments we've never seen. The work spans Kubernetes, Python, PostgreSQL, and LLM infrastructure, but the real skill is figuring out how it all fits together somewhere new. This is crucial early-stage work. …
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