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Senior Solutions Engineer

extra holidays - extra parental leave - work from home - fully flexible

Remote:

Full Remote

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Germany

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant experience, Experience with technical sales of distributed systems, Proficiency in Java or Python, Exceptional presentation and communication skills.

Key responsabilities:

Serve as a key technical advisor to customers
Articulate Confluent’s technical and product positioning

Confluent Computer Software / SaaS Large http://confluent.io/

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

Position at Confluent Germany GmbH

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

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.

What You Will Do:

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.

What You Will Bring:

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

What Gives You an Edge:

Previous experience building solutions with Apache Kafka
Understanding of systems operations concepts (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
Experience building and operating large scale systems

Come As You Are

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