Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent

• Experience with technical sales of distributed systems, infrastructure software like databases, message queues, SaaS, or Big Data products
• Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, including enterprise architects and C-level executives
• Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and a desire to tackle hard technical problems
• Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
• Proficiency in Java or Python with experience developing ETL applications

Desirable

• Confluent Enterprise Solutions Engineers drive the technical evaluation stage of the overall sales process, making them critical drivers of customer success as real-time data streams become more and more important in the modern enterprise
• In this role, you will be the key technical advisor to the sales team, work very closely with the product management and engineering teams, and serve as a vital product advocate in front of prospects, customers, and the wider Kafka and Big Data communities
• You will be a key technical advisor to Confluent customers as they undertake technical design and development of their end-to-end solution
• You will be conversant with the current state and future roadmap of Kafka in open source, and be able to identify known issues and inform them of upcoming fixes or workarounds
• You’ll also be responsible for clear articulation of Confluent’s technical and product positioning to a wide variety of business and technical stakeholders
• You will be expected to forge strong relationships with client stakeholders throughout the sales cycle and beyond