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Company

Confluent · 5 hours ago

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer - Tech Ecosystem

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$159K/yr - $187K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Ensure that customers have the best possible experience for integrating Confluent and Partner products in the ecosystem

Work with Partners to build differentiated integration that highlights Confluent Technology.

Collaborate with ISV and Product teams to determine a roadmap of partner integrations

Define, build, and deliver repeatable solutions that highlight the partner and Confluent joint value propositions

Own relationships with key technical leaders

Support Partner technical initiatives such as partner-driven scalable GTM assets, partner team enablement workshops, assessment, advice, and coaching

Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Confluent internal teams, helping to bring those concerns to resolution

Provide architecture guidance and recommendations across solutions, offerings, and customer opportunities

Author whitepapers, technical articles, and blog posts

Help scale the team by building reusable content and programs

Empower partners on emerging technologies using knowledge on advanced topics, such as leveraging LLMs (Large Language Models) for real-time data enrichment, or integrating generative AI frameworks into streaming pipelines.

Collaborate with internal teams including Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing and Support.

Represent Confluent at select in-person conferences.

Qualification

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Solutions EngineeringEvent-Driven architectureData IntegrationCloud ArchitectureJavaPythonSQLData WarehouseData LakeGenerative AIProgram ManagementTechnical Account ManagementApache KafkaBig Data TechnologiesDistributed SystemsAI ConceptsCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

8+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience

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

Experience with Database, Data Warehouse and Data Lake/Lakehouse technologies and Data Engineering.

Demonstrated hands-on experience architecting enterprise solutions for customers and partners

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

Proficiency in Java or Python and SQL

Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI and related technologies.

Exceptional program management skills and attention to detail Understanding of the ecosystem surrounding Confluent and Kafka

Ability to prioritize across multiple projects

Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems

Good presentation and communication capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives

Experience as a Sales Engineer or Technical Account Manager

Experience operating within and across cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, sales, marketing, etc

Preferred

Knowledge of Apache Kafka and other streaming technologies

Experience as a Sales/Systems Engineer in a cloud environment or equivalent experience in a customer or partner-facing role.

A challenger mindset and an ability to positively influence peoples’ opinions

Experience designing and building big data, stream processing, and other distributed systems for Fortune 1000 companies

Hands-on proficiency in programming languages commonly used for data processing and analytics, such as Python, SQL, and JavaScript.

A solid understanding of AI concepts and techniques for working with large language models, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Experience working with global teams

Company

Confluent

Glassdoor

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Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.

Founded in 2014

Mountain View, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://confluent.io

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