Senior Consulting Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Solution Engineer to join our Customer Success and Professional Services team. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their business results. In this role, you will interact directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka platform, and complementary systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Storm, relational and NoSQL databases. You will develop and advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges. Throughout all these interactions, you will build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the opportunity to help customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure, in partnership with colleagues who are widely recognized as industry leaders, as well as optimizing and debugging customers existing deployments.

What You Will Do
* Helping a customer determine their platform and/or application strategy for moving to a more real-time, event-based business. Such engagements often involve remote preparation; presenting an onsite or remote workshop for the customers architects, developers, and operations teams; investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges; and writing a recommendations summary doc.
* Providing feedback to the Product and Engineering groups
* Building tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality
* Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering
* Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiences
* Honing your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features
* Participating in community and industry events

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

Years of Experience:
8 - 15