# Solutions Engineer

**Company:** [Redpanda Data](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/redpanda-data)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Salary:** $169k – $198k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, Kafka, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure
**Posted:** 2026-04-22

> Solutions Engineer partners with sales to demo Redpanda streaming platform, builds POCs, prototypes integrations, and addresses technical objections for customers. Requires 3-8+ years experience with infrastructure, streaming tech like Kafka, and cloud providers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Work alongside the sales team to introduce Redpanda to 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 strategies to address those blockers to adoption

## 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 (**Java**, **Python**, **Go**, **JavaScript**)
- Passion for working on complex technical problems and strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies (**Kafka** ecosystem preferred)
- Strong ability to build relationships with 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
- Flexibility to travel to meet customers, attend events or conferences
- Comfortable with **Linux** and **Kubernetes**
- Proficient with one or more of the following cloud providers: **AWS**, **GCP**, **Azure**

## Compensation

U.S. base salary range: **$168,500 - $198,000**, not including bonus and/or commission.

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