Kong

Senior Solutions Engineer

Kong
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2 months ago
Paris, FranceSenior

Responsibilities

  • Support field sales by helping customers understand the value of Kong’s API Management platform.
  • Gather customer requirements and build trusted relationships throughout the sales lifecycle from product review through production.
  • Support proof-of-concepts throughout the evaluation process.
  • Ensure customer satisfaction across assigned accounts.
  • Prioritize customer needs and coordinate with support, product, and engineering teams.
  • Create technical documentation for DevOps, implementations, and services engagements.
  • Onboard and train new customers and help establish revenue potential with existing customers.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering and/or sales engineering management experience at a SaaS, open source, or enterprise software company.
  • Candidates with post-sales or technical support backgrounds may be considered if they have aptitude for technical sales.
  • Solid understanding of cloud computing trends and open source business models.
  • Strong listening and communication skills.
  • Ability to lead discussions with Product Managers, Engineers, and Executives.
  • Experience with open source technology and knowledge of NGINX, Docker, HTTP, AWS, Postgres, and Cassandra are desired.
  • Experience with Docker, Linux operating systems, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes, DCOS/Mesos, and Docker Swarm is a plus.

Tech Stack

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Solutions Engineering
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About Kong

1,001-5,000 employees
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