over 1 year ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical point of contact for prospects and customers during onboarding, pilots, and expansions.
- Lead technical discussions with engineering, security, and data teams.
- Design and deliver customized solution architectures demonstrating Formal’s platform value.
- Partner with engineering to prioritize and scope technical requests and integrations.
- Build internal tooling, scripts, and resources to accelerate repeatable onboarding.
- Maintain expertise in Formal’s product, data protocols, and adjacent ecosystem.
- Collect customer feedback and communicate insights to product and engineering teams to influence the roadmap.
Requirements
- Experience in a solutions engineering, sales engineering, or implementation engineering role at a developer-facing company.
- Strong technical background with experience writing production code, debugging systems, or running infrastructure.
- Ability to explain complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern infrastructure tools.
- Comfort working across systems, APIs, and data protocols including Postgres, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, and S3.
- Strong collaboration, ownership, hands-on problem-solving, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
- Experience in a fast-growing startup environment is preferred.
- Experience using Temporal and Render is preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of datastore protocols such as Postgres, S3, and Kafka is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Stock options grant.
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for U.S.-based full-time employees.
- Partial coverage for dependents.
- Flexible PTO.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Formal
Formal builds a data privilege access management platform that automates fine-grained access control and monitoring across the modern data stack for engineering-focused security teams. It sells its software as a cloud-based subscription. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by investors including Thrive Capital and Y Combinator.