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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** LinuxRecruit
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £130,000.0 - £160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, AI Infrastructure, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Microservices
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.linuxrecruit.co.uk/job/forward-deployed-engineer-2

## About the Role

This is for engineers who have extensive experience building backend software, a strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs and cloud architecture, and who enjoy solving complex engineering challenges. Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, containerisation, Kubernetes and public cloud platforms would be advantageous, as would exposure to AI infrastructure or data-intensive systems.



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