Principal Solutions Engineer (East Coast)
Required skills
- Kubernetes
- Technical Sales
- cloud migrations
- microservices
- legacy infrastructure
- cloud native solutions
- API
- Service Mesh
- eBPF
- GraphQL
Nice to have
- Istio
- API Gateways
Role summary
Solo is seeking a Principal Solutions Engineer to join their pre-sales technical team. This role involves collaborating with sales to understand customer technical challenges, particularly in cloud migrations and microservices, and aligning them with Solo.io's Gloo platform. Responsibilities include leading discovery calls, delivering product presentations and demos, executing proof-of-concepts, and providing architectural guidance for cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years in technical sales support and 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience. Travel up to 30% is expected, primarily on the US East Coast. Experience with Istio and API Gateways is a plus.
Who we are.
Solo.io is reimagining infrastructure for cloud and AI. We unite secure, seamless cloud connectivity with AI-ready, agentic infrastructure, and leading enterprises worldwide trust us to securely connect their applications, services, and AI workloads across any environment.
Joining Solo means working at the center of how enterprises adopt AI: on open source projects built in the open with a global community, alongside the people who created them, for customers who are among the largest in the world. If you want to help organizations accelerate innovation, scale intelligently, and put modern AI agents to work, we’d love to meet you. Learn more at www.solo.io.
About the role.
We are looking for an individual to join as a Solutions Engineer! This person will be collaborating as a pre-sales technical professional to align the customer’s technical challenges with their outcomes.
The main focus of this role is to work alongside Sales Executives while providing a technical introduction of our solutions to customers. The field engineering role provides architectural guidance through understanding our customer's challenges and leading them through proof-of-concept use of Solo solutions.
This role will require occasional travel, focused on the US East Coast.
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What you’ll love about Solo.
At Solo, our culture is all about hiring great people, creating a fun and fast-paced work culture, and letting our teams work with our customers to successfully solve their challenges.
Solo works collaboratively with our customers, partners and open source communities to deliver technology innovation, technology solutions, architectural best-practices, and hands-on education. Solo uses a unique engagement model with our customers that allows us to quickly make them successful, and continue to work closely with them as their production environments grow.
Solo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
The company may use AI tools to help sort applicants based on job related criteria. However, the hiring team decides who moves forward and no employment decisions are made by AI.
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