Commercial Pre-Sales Engineer

Company: Confluent Inc
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

Customer Solutions - Solutions Engineering / Dubbed an "open-source unicorn" by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Franklin Templeton to join earlier investors Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures in the recent Series E financing of a combined $250 million at a $4.5B valuation. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we're being led by the best in the space-our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka--. We're looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform! Confluent Commercial Pre-Sales 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 Commercial and Mid-Market 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 the key technical advisor to Confluent customers as they undertake technical design and development of their end-to-end solution, 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, and for forging strong relationships with them throughout the sales cycle and beyond. What we're looking for:

• Experience with distributed systems, infrastructure software like databases, message queues, Kubernetes, serverless and/or Big Data products
• Experience of working with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and/or Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Proficiency in Java, Python, Node or Go
• 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 What gives you an edge
  • Previous experience building solutions with Apache Kafka
  • Understanding of systems operations concepts is highly desirable (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
  • Experience building and operating large-scale massively parallel systems
  • Previous sales engineering experience is a plus
  • White papers, articles and/or presentations at marketing conferences Come As You Are At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Click here to review our-- California Candidate Privacy Notice , which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.

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