Full-Time
Solutions Engineer
Pre-Sales
Posted on 12/20/2024
Redpanda Data
51-200 employees
Cost-effective streaming data platform
Mid, Senior
Remote in UK
- 3-8+ years of prior experience leading presentations, collecting requirements, developing solution architectures, and teaching prospective users or project teams how to use software similar to Redpanda
- Comfortable developing/prototyping solutions in many different languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, and Javascript)
- Passion for working on complex technical problems and have a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies (Kafka ecosystem preferred)
- Strong ability to build relationships with our partners, customers, and open-source users
- Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
- Collaborative spirit and enjoy making sure each team gets customer feedback to provide great customer experience
- Flexibility to travel to meet customers, attend events or conferences or wherever the work takes you
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Knowledge of different cloud vendors, for example, AWS and GCP
- Experience working with enterprise accounts
- Work alongside the sales team to introduce Redpanda to our potential customers
- Lead product and solution briefings, build proof-of-concepts (POC), run live product demos, and prototype Redpanda integrations
- Partner with Redpanda product management, engineering and support teams to solve customer challenges and improve customer experience
- Identify and address customers' key technical objections and develop the strategies to address those blockers to adoption
Redpanda offers a data streaming platform that simplifies the use of Kafka APIs, making it easier and more cost-effective for businesses to process real-time data. Users can choose between a fully-managed cloud service or a self-hosted option, which allows for flexibility based on their needs. The platform significantly reduces infrastructure costs and improves performance, achieving lower latencies and higher throughput compared to competitors. Redpanda's goal is to provide a powerful, efficient, and environmentally friendly solution for data streaming that is easy to deploy and manage.
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$161M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2019
6 month growth
↓ -3%1 year growth
↑ 14%2 year growth
↑ 56%
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Redpanda's partnership with Ockam introduces a zero-trust, secure streaming data platform.
- The acquisition of Benthos enhances Redpanda's platform with popular stream processing capabilities.
- Redpanda Serverless offers a flexible, pay-as-you-go model for scalable data streaming.
What critics are saying
- Increased competition may erode Redpanda's market share in the streaming data sector.
- Rapid technological advancements could render Redpanda's platform outdated without continuous innovation.
- Integration challenges from Benthos acquisition may disrupt service delivery and customer satisfaction.
What makes Redpanda Data unique
- Redpanda offers a Kafka API-compatible platform with reduced complexity and cost.
- The platform supports inline Lambda transformations, enhancing real-time data processing capabilities.
- Redpanda's environmentally friendly design minimizes compute, storage, and bandwidth consumption.
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