8h ago

Staff Solutions Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

$180k-$250k / yearest.

full-timesenior RemoteCloud infrastructure / DevOps

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll partner with sales to drive technical pre-sales efforts for Upbound's Intelligent Control Plane platform, helping enterprise customers adopt Crossplane and Kubernetes. You'll build trusted relationships, deliver demos, and guide customers from discovery to deployment.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Partner with Account Executives on technical discussions throughout the buying lifecycle.
  • Create and deliver high-fidelity presentations, demos, and sample solutions.
  • Collaborate with customers to design and implement Crossplane and Upbound Cloud architectures.
  • Collect detailed customer requirements for product and engineering estimation.

📋 Requirements

  • Pre-sales or consulting experience in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience designing and deploying Kubernetes to production.
  • Deep understanding of multiple major cloud providers and their services.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps.

✨ Nice to Have

  • Active involvement in the upstream Kubernetes community.
  • History of speaking at conferences or contributing to open source.
  • Experience in a startup or distributed/remote team.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
  • 🏥 Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 💰 Equity package
  • 📈 401(k) matching
  • 💻 Remote-first culture
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