Senior Solutions Engineer - Flink (Remote, US / Canada)

Location : Remote, United States

Employment Type : FullTime

Location Type : Remote

Department Sales

Compensation : $136.7K - $160.3K - Offers Equity - Offers Commission

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click here () .

Overview

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 Success 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 Proofs of Concept

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 Solutions Engineering or similar work experience

Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration & Processing Techniques, Database & Data Warehouse technologies

First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment & Application Development

Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes

Hands-on experience with Apache Flink

Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL

Technical certifications - Cloud Developer / Architect, Data Engineering & Integration

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

What Gives You an Edge :

Familiarity with Solution Selling

Experience building streaming applications using Flink

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.