[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @Portainer.io

Role Description

We're looking for a Edge Platform Engineer to help operate and modernize one of the world's largest industrial edge computing deployments. You'll work with a fleet of more than 100,000 connected edge devices running Docker-based applications in challenging real-world environments where connectivity is intermittent, bandwidth is constrained, and devices may remain offline for extended periods.

This role combines:

• Docker platform engineering
• Edge computing
• Networking
• Deployment automation
• Troubleshooting
• Customer collaboration

You'll work directly with enterprise customers and our engineering team to solve complex operational problems at scale. If you've worked with industrial IoT, edge gateways, manufacturing systems, mining, energy, transportation, or other distributed edge environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Docker and Docker Compose
• Experience with IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT)
• Experience supporting Linux systems in production
• Experience deploying applications to remote or distributed edge environments
• Experience operating systems across unreliable, high-latency, or bandwidth-constrained networks
• Strong understanding of container networking
• Experience in Edge Computing
• Experience troubleshooting production systems remotely
• Familiarity with container image optimization and multi-stage Docker builds
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills
• Excellent customer communication skills

Requirements

• Highly Desirable: Experience with one or more of:
• IoT gateways
• Manufacturing automation
• Connected vehicles
• Mining
• Energy
• Oil & Gas
• Utilities
• Retail edge deployments
• Smart factories
• Industrial networking
• Experience with:
• Docker Swarm
• Portainer
• MQTT
• OPC-UA
• Modbus
• Edge gateways
• VPN technologies
• Reverse proxies
• mTLS
• Embedded Linux
• ARM devices
• Systemd
• Shell scripting

Benefits

• You'll work on real-world engineering problems that exist at massive scale:
• 100,000+ edge devices
• Global industrial deployments
• Large enterprise customers
• Modern container technologies
• Direct collaboration with product engineering
• Opportunity to influence future platform capabilities