Staff Solutions Engineer

Role Responsibilities:

• Partnering with a Sales Account Executive to engage in technical discussions with customers throughout the buying lifecycle.
• Working cross functionally with product marketing, and independently, to create and deliver high fidelity presentations, custom demos, sample solutions, and present use cases to guide the customer through the buying journey
• Closely partnering with customers and platform builders to solve technical and business challenges which enables them to design, build and implement Crossplane and Upbound Cloud based control plane architectures.

Requirements:

• Worked in pre-sales, consulting, or equivalent experience in an enterprise environment.
• Experience developing relationships with engineering, executive, and commercial teams throughout large organizations.
• Guided customers through designing and deploying Kubernetes to their production environments.

Bonus Points:

• Actively involved or have contributed to the upstream Kubernetes community.
• Have a history of speaking at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles, and/or contributing to a popular open source project.