Careers at Forgeon
Remote-first. Small team. Big surface area. We ship.
Senior Backend Engineer (Go, PaaS)
Own core services (deploy-service, runtime-service, git-service, cia-service). Ship fast, design clean APIs, keep the platform blazing.
Responsibilities
- Design event-driven microservices (Go + Fiber/GORM)
- Own schemas (Postgres), efficient queries & migrations
- Publish/consume NATS JetStream with idempotency
- Implement CI logs (SSE), artifacts, redeploy pipelines
- Reliability: tracing, metrics, structured logs, SLOs
Requirements
- 5+ years backend in Go
- Strong SQL/Postgres fundamentals
- Message bus experience (NATS/Kafka/Rabbit)
- Docker, Linux networking, TLS basics
- Clear communication & thoughtful reviews
Nice to have
- ACME/DNS-01 & Cloudflare APIs
- PaaS multi-tenant design
- GitHub App & analyzers
Runtime Engineer (Containers & Orchestration)
Advance Forgeon’s runtime: image lifecycle, start-up performance, health/ready gates, scaling, and resource isolation.
Responsibilities
- Optimize image pulls, caching, and cold-start paths
- Improve container lifecycle, probes, and restarts
- Implement scaling knobs (HPA-like) & scheduling hints
- Strengthen runtime isolation & sandboxing options
- Profile performance; reduce TTV for deploys
Requirements
- Solid systems & container internals knowledge
- Linux perf tooling and troubleshooting
- Experience with image registries & caching layers
- Strong debugging & documentation chops
Nice to have
- Firecracker familiarity
- CNI/Cgroups experience
Platform / SRE Engineer
Build the spine of Forgeon: edge routing, certificates, secure networking, and golden-path automation that keeps prod boring and fast.
Responsibilities
- Own edge & gateway (Nginx/WAF, rate limiters, allowlists)
- Automate ACME issuance & DNS propagation checks
- Harden secrets, isolation, backups; DR drills
- Observability & on-call: metrics, logs, tracing, runbooks
- Multi-VM/region rollouts with safe deploys
Requirements
- 3+ years SRE/Infra in production
- Linux, Docker, L4/L7 networking, TLS
- DNS providers (Cloudflare/Route53/DO)
- Incident response & runbook design
Nice to have
- MinIO/S3, Redis, Postgres HA
- NATS JetStream ops
Frontend Engineer (Next.js + Tailwind)
Craft developer-loving UI: deploy flows, live logs, notifications matrix, Mini-RDS console, pricing, dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Ship elegant UIs (App Router), Tailwind, shadcn/ui
- Realtime UX (SSE logs, WS console), great empty states
- Perf budgets, a11y, loading skeletons
- DX: wizards, progressive onboarding, helpful errors
- Component system & docs; design tokens discipline
Requirements
- 3+ years React/Next.js
- TS fluency, strong CSS/Tailwind intuition
- Understands SSR/ISR, caching, edge constraints
- Auth + event-driven API integration
Nice to have
- Framer finesse
- Data-viz literacy
- UX copy
Product Designer (Design Systems)
Define Forgeon’s visual language. Systematize components, reduce cognitive load, turn complex infra into approachable flows.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end flows (deploys, logs, DB console, notifications)
- Build reusable system: tokens, components, motion, states
- Prototype crisp interactions & microcopy
- Partner with engineers for high-fidelity outcomes
Requirements
- Portfolio with complex system thinking
- Comfort with dev tooling & constraints
- Strong collaboration & critique culture
Nice to have
- Devtools/infra/data product background
- Figma mastery
Security Engineer (App & Infra)
Guard the platform. From secrets to supply chain, make security a product feature—quietly and relentlessly.
Responsibilities
- Threat model services & edge; build guardrails
- Harden secrets, tokens, rotation, audit trails
- Review TLS, WAF, allowlists, rate limits, isolation
- Automate security checks in CI/runtime
Requirements
- Proven AppSec/InfraSec for cloud products
- Go/TS review comfort; Linux ops
- Practical early-stage compliance mindset
Nice to have
- IR playbooks/tabletops
- ACME/DNS challenge nuances
Developer Relations / Content Engineer
Turn Forgeon into a movement. Tutorials, sample apps, streams; help founders ship real apps in public.
Responsibilities
- Guides, example repos, short-form video, workshops
- Great docs & recipes (Git, CI, deploys, DB)
- Community engagement & feedback loops
- Surface developer pain → product improvements
Requirements
- Strong writing & teaching instincts
- Comfortable building small full-stack examples
- Public presence (talks, posts, OSS)
Nice to have
- Launched community programs
- SEO/content ops
Full-Stack Engineer (Founders’ Experience)
Own the founder golden path: intake → analyze → build → deploy → domain → cert → DB → first notification.
Responsibilities
- Ship the “Day-0 to Live” flows end-to-end
- Instrument TTV, activation, success notifications
- Tighten artifact redeploy loops & rollback UX
- Work across FE/BE to remove friction
Requirements
- Comfortable across Next.js + Go
- Great async comms & product sense
- Bias for small PRs & rapid iteration
Nice to have
- Pricing/onboarding experiments
- Analytics hygiene
Growth PMM (Dev Audience)
Tell the Forgeon story crisply. Build funnels, nail positioning, turn shipping-in-public into compounding growth.
Responsibilities
- Narrative & positioning for devs/teams
- Content engine: playbooks, templates, examples
- Website flows & pricing experiments
- Measure activation & retention loops
Requirements
- Devtools or PaaS PMM background
- Strong copy & GTM instincts
- Data- and experiment-minded
Nice to have
- SEO at scale
- Community collabs
Technical Writer (Docs & Guides)
Make Forgeon obvious. Clear, friendly docs with runnable examples so founders can ship before their coffee cools.
Responsibilities
- Write concepts, how-tos, reference pages
- Keep screenshots & code samples fresh
- Doc linting & IA improvements
- Collaborate with DevRel & Product
Requirements
- Excellent technical writing
- Understands CI/CD & deploy basics
- Can run small examples end-to-end
Nice to have
- MDX pipelines & tooling
- Open-source docs history