Forward Deployed Engineer, Giant Swarm
€70-100k
Kubernetes management software
Open for applications
Kubernetes management software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
€70-100k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give everyone the power and freedom to build modern software that runs their world.
Role
Who you are
- You have practical, hands-on experience in a customer-facing technical role (Solutions Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer, or similar)
- You have real, hands-on experience building with agentic AI - MCPs, agent frameworks, tool-using LLMs, or similar. This is non-negotiable
- You can get productive in an unfamiliar business domain fast, and turn what you learn into concrete technical solutions
- You have at least a solid working understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native operations
- You communicate clearly and confidently with both customer stakeholders and engineers - this role lives at that interface
- Experience with developer relations, workshops, or technical enablement is a strong plus, as is prior Solutions Architect experience
- You're comfortable with ambiguity - this is our first hire fully dedicated to agentic customer work, so a lot of the "how" is still being defined as you go
- You are able to comfortably align parts of your workday with Europe (UTC +/- 2 hours)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d) to join us as the embedded technical expert who takes our customers from "interested in AI" to running real agentic workflows in production
- This is a hands-on, code-shipping role, not an advisory one. You'll work directly inside a customer's environment - understanding their domain, their data, and the business outcomes that matter to them - and build the agentic use cases (using MCPs, skills, and our agent platform) that make those outcomes real
- You'll also bring a working understanding of Kubernetes, since our platform is built and operated on it, but that's the foundation you stand on, not the focus of the role
- Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products - this role is core to how we do that with our agent platform
- You partner directly with a customer as their embedded expert - not just advising, but designing, building, and shipping working agentic solutions in their environment
- You get up to speed on a new customer's domain quickly (e.g. smart manufacturing, financial services, whatever it is) and identify the business outcomes AI/agentic workflows can realistically deliver for them
- You design and build proof-of-concepts and production-track agentic workflows using MCPs, skills, and our agent platform, tailored to that customer's data and systems
- You act as the customer-side expert on what our agent platform can do - translating platform capability into something their engineers can actually use and extend
- You work closely with customer engineering teams - some devrel-style enablement, workshops, and pairing so they can own what you build after you move on
- You feed the patterns and gaps you find back to the product team, shaping what we build next
- You may support pre-sales conversations - helping scope what AI use cases would deliver value for a prospect, and building examples that help make the case for choosing Giant Swarm
Our take
The advent of cloud computing has made computational power and applications accessible to enterprises of all sizes. However, it has also ushered in a new problem for enterprises - labouring over software infrastructure.
Giant Swarm fixes that problem by delivering software infrastructure management as a service. Crucial to its approach, however, is that it's not tied to a single software trend. Instead, it emphasises managing microservices with an uncanny ability to evolve with an ever-changing market.
That means that Giant Swarm will continue to invest in its impressive engineering and product teams, refining its product continuously to best serve the DevOps teams of its customers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2015
$1.3m
SEED
Jul 2014
$1.1m
SEED
Total funding: $2.4m
Company HQ
Media-Park, Köln, Germany
Leadership
Henning Lange
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founded a realtime trading platform for Data Driven advertising, Adcloud, which was sold to DHL. Also founded another two successful companies in the advertising and lead generation space.
Oliver Thylmann
(Co-Founder & Head of Relationships)Previously founded AdTech company, AdCloud where they were CTO. Now also works a crypto investor and podcaster with Die Crypto Nerd Show.
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