Solutions Engineer

We're not just building better tech. We're rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

About the Role:

Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you'll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customer. You'll be instrumental in surfacing the customers' stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Solutions team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent's Technology.

What You Will Do:

• Help advance new & innovative data streaming use-cases from conception to go-live

• Execute on and lead technical proof of concepts

• Conduct discovery & whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases

• Provide thought Leadership by delivering technical talks and workshops

• Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent deployment

• Analyze customer consumption trends and identify optimization opportunities

• Work closely with product and engineering teams, and serve as a key product advocate across the customer, partner and Industry ecosystem

• Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them

What You Will Bring:

• 5 years of Sales/Pre-Sales/Solutions Engineering or similar customer facing experience in the software sales or implementation space

• Experience with event-driven architecture, data integration & processing techniques, database & data warehouse technologies, or related fields

• First-Hand exposure to cloud architecture, migrations, deployment & application development

• Experience with DevOps/Automation, GitOps or Kubernetes

• Ability to read & write Java, Python or SQL

• Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems

• Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives

• Excellent skills in cross functional collaboration to work effectively and harmoniously with others to achieve common goals.

What Gives You an Edge:

• Technical certifications - cloud developer/architect, data engineering & integration

• Familiarity with solution or value Selling

• A challenger mindset and an ability to positively influence peoples' opinions

Ready to build what's next? Let's get in motion. Come As You Are

Belonging isn't a perk here. It's the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what's possible.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.

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