Staff Solutions Engineer @Upbound

[Hiring] Staff Solutions Engineer @Upbound

Mar 26, 2025 - Upbound is hiring a remote Staff Solutions Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Europe.

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Role Description

As a Staff Solutions Engineer (SE) at Upbound, you'll be a vital part of our pre-sales team. This role will support all pre-sales efforts in the EMEA region across multiple segments.

  • Work directly with customers to understand the technical business problem they are trying to solve.
  • Help customers navigate and understand the value Upbound products and solutions bring them.
  • Build credible technical relationships with customers by listening and clearly communicating the value proposition of our products.
  • Be familiar with Upbound’s product roadmap and intuit when to sell ahead of it or focus on existing solutions.
  • Understand the key technical and economic buyer's personalities to facilitate deal closures.
  • Partner with a Sales Account Executive to engage in technical discussions with customers throughout the buying lifecycle.
  • Work cross-functionally with product marketing to create and deliver high fidelity presentations, custom demos, and sample solutions.
  • Closely partner with customers and platform builders to solve technical and business challenges.
  • Define, implement, and test out early proof of concepts of Crossplane and Upbound Cloud.
  • Collect detailed customer requirements for accurate estimation and resource allocation.
  • Act as the technical voice and trusted advisor to the customer.
  • Project manage the account pre and post-sale to ensure a smooth customer experience.

Qualifications

  • Guided customers through designing and deploying Kubernetes to their production environments.
  • Deep understanding of highly scaled and reliable services, solutions, and infrastructure in multiple major cloud providers.
  • Worked directly with customers and/or open source community members to troubleshoot and solve complex technical issues.
  • Deployed and integrated projects and tools of the Cloud Native Landscape, especially CNCF projects, into production environments.
  • Deep understanding of modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies inside production deployment workflows.
  • Ability to work closely with people from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
  • Successfully managed multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  • Identified and removed friction from the buying process to streamline and shorten the sales cycle.
  • Excitement and comfort in further defining, scaling, and making this part of our sales process thrive.

Requirements

  • Active involvement or contributions to the upstream Kubernetes community is a plus.
  • History of speaking at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles, or contributing to a popular open source project is a plus.
  • Experience working in a startup and distributed/remote team is a plus.

Benefits

  • Commitment to building a great culture with values like Be Accountable, Demonstrate Craftsmanship, Champion the Customer, Collaborate Decisively, Care For Our Communities, Act as an Owner, and Engage Vulnerability.
  • A place where learning, growth, impact, and fun intersect.
  • Encouragement for people of all backgrounds, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, or any other descriptors to apply with enthusiasm and confidence.

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Europe
Job Type unspecified
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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