Solutions Engineer

Redpanda Data

11h • Remote

About The Position

Redpanda is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP), a new category in AI infrastructure designed to simplify and secure the connection of AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda enables agentic applications to reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders such as Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and two of the top five U.S. banks utilize Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data daily. The company is backed by Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack VC, and is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed globally. As a Solutions Engineer, you will join a rapidly growing team, helping to qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners by providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and technical evaluations.

Requirements

• 3-8+ years of prior experience leading presentations, collecting requirements, developing solution architectures, and teaching prospective users or project teams how to use software similar to Redpanda
• Comfortable developing/prototyping solutions in many different languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, and Javascript)
• Passion for working on complex technical problems and have a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies (Kafka ecosystem preferred)
• Strong ability to build relationships with our partners, customers, and open-source users
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Collaborative spirit and enjoy making sure each team gets customer feedback to provide great customer experience
• Flexibility to travel to meet customers, attend events or conferences or wherever the work takes you
• Comfortable with Linux and Kubernetes
• Proficient with one or more of the following cloud providers: AWS, GCP and Azure

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the sales team to introduce Redpanda to our potential customers
• Lead product and solution briefings, build proof-of-concepts (POC), run live product demos, and prototype Redpanda integrations
• Partner with Redpanda product management, engineering and support teams to solve customer challenges and improve customer experience
• Identify and address customers' key technical objections and develop the strategies to address those blockers to adoption

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees