A10X Brief №13: Salesforce lists 60 FDE postings, AWS splits the title across five teams, and Wonderful closed Spain, Portugal and Vietnam in a week

The weekly A10X Brief for week 46 of 2026 pulls three changes from careers sites on 5 November, each aimed at people interviewing for Forward Deployed Engineer roles.

Salesforce’s board showed 60 FDE postings, 43 posted since 1 October, with 51 outside the US across 26 countries. Fifty-five sit under Sales and five under Software. Printed US pay depends on the experience line: 2+ years (MTS) at $117K–$177K base ($141K–$194K in San Francisco and New York), a main 3+ years posting that spans $89K–$288K (up to $317K in California, New York and several metros), and Lead MTS at $173K–$260K. Outside the US only Italy and Toronto print bands. A10X notes that a range that wide is several levels in one posting, so the interview sets the level before pay talks begin; 27 of the 60 call customer-facing delivery a requirement, and 40 expect about 25% travel.

On amazon.jobs, 57 FDE engineering postings split into five tracks under one title: Core FDE (32, many asking for agentic and spec-driven work), US Government (9, all TS/SCI), Model customization (5, multi-node LLM post-training), Security FDE (5), and a separate Forward Deployment Engineering team (6, mostly 5+ years with mentoring). The brief’s point for candidates is that preparing for “the AWS FDE interview” without naming the team is preparing for a job that does not exist.

Wonderful’s Ashby board fell from 39 FDE requisitions in 38 markets (28 October) to 36 in 35 markets: Spain, Portugal and Vietnam closed, while Zurich dropped its C2 German bar for English plus a preference for German or French. A10X’s own board moved from 372 to 355 default-view FDE roles between 2 and 5 November. For FDEs the through-line is simple: read the level for pay, the team for the work, and the date to see whether the role is still open.