[Hiring] Solutions Engineer @Redpanda Data

Role Description

Come and join our rapidly growing Solutions Engineer team! As a Solutions Engineer, you will help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations.

• Work alongside the sales team to introduce Redpanda to our potential customers.
• Lead product and solution briefings, build proof-of-concepts (POC), run live product demos, and prototype Redpanda integrations.
• Partner with Redpanda product management, engineering, and support teams to solve customer challenges and improve customer experience.
• Identify and address customers' key technical objections and develop the strategies to address those blockers to adoption.

Qualifications

• 3-8+ years of prior experience leading presentations, collecting requirements, developing solution architectures, and teaching prospective users or project teams how to use software similar to Redpanda.
• Comfortable developing/prototyping solutions in many different languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, and Javascript).
• Passion for working on complex technical problems and have a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies (Kafka ecosystem preferred).
• Strong ability to build relationships with our partners, customers, and open-source users.
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding.
• Collaborative spirit and enjoy making sure each team gets customer feedback to provide great customer experience.
• Flexibility to travel to meet customers, attend events or conferences or wherever the work takes you.
• Comfortable with Linux and Kubernetes.
• Proficient with one or more of the following cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Requirements

• U.S. base salary range for this role is $168,500 - $198,000, not including bonus and/or commission.
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
• As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary.
• Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Benefits

• Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe.
• A culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.