STS Solutions Engineer

• Drive DSP Adoption: Partner with field teams to accelerate the adoption of the Data Streaming Platform by moving complex customer use cases from initial concept into full production environments. • Expert Solution Design: Support high-touch solution design engagements, providing deep technical architectural guidance to ensure scalable and resilient deployments. • Unblock Technical Roadblocks: Act as an escalation point to identify and resolve critical technical hurdles, ensuring seamless integration and blueprinting during the customer journey. • Strategic Technical Discovery: Conduct deep-dive discovery sessions to gather requirements and develop high-fidelity Proof of Concept (POC) solutions that demonstrate Confluent's unique value. • Scale Through Artifacts: Architect and maintain advanced technical artifacts, including reusable architecture blueprints, prototypes, and automated tools that empower the broader SE community. • Global Technical Enablement: Deliver expert-level workshops, webinars, and training sessions to educate partners and internal teams on the latest DSP features and best practices. • 4+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience in a technical pre-sales capacity. • Process & Efficiency, a “scale” mindset. An ability to quickly leverage standardized demo environments, template proposals, and documented Proof of Concept (PoC) scopes to minimize preparation time. • Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration & Processing Techniques, Database & Data Warehouse technologies. • First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment & Application Development. • Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes. • Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL. • Development or implementation experience in a cloud-based environment, along with Technical certifications (e.g., Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering & Integration). • Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems. • Managing multiple evaluation processes across various industry verticals and use cases, ability to be nimble and organized is a must • Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities to all levels across an organization. • Ability to explain complex concepts in plain, non-technical language that resonates with mid-level managers and business owners. • Fluency in English is a requisite. • WHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE: • Previous experience building solutions with Apache Kafka. • Understanding of systems operations concepts (disk, network, operating systems, etc). • Experience with software development tools, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Ansible) is a plus • Experience building and operating large scale systems. • Experience in technical pre-sales or consultative roles. • READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION. • COME AS YOU ARE • Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.