# Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform

SurrealDB is on the lookout for platform engineers to join our bench of Forward Deployed Engineers, working inside enterprise customers’ engineering teams to deploy, integrate and run SurrealDB and SurrealDB Agent Memory in production. Few people have years of SurrealDB or agent memory experience, so we care more about solid engineering habits and how fast you learn than years on a CV. We train and certify every Forward Deployed Engineer before they go to a customer. In this role, you will own the platform side of a customer build: environments, data, integration and the non-functional requirements that decide whether a system can go live. You will pair with an Agentic Systems Engineer who owns the agent and memory design, and on most engagements you will be the technical lead for the pair. You will report to a SurrealDB engineering manager, who assigns your work, sets technical direction and supports your progress, while an engagement manager handles delivery updates to the customer. About this engagement Contract role, starting in November or December 2026 and running for around three months, full time Open to applicants based in the UK or the US Working US Eastern hours, includi

- **Id**: 4178920
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/surrealdb-forward-deployed-engineer-platform>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T16:56:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T16:56:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Databases & DBMS

## Company

- **Id**: 713824
- **Name**: SurrealDB
- **Domain**: surrealdb.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/surrealdb>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **Azure Cosmos DB** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Letta** — Optional: no
- **Mem0** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SurrealDB** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T16:56:31Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:02:47Z

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