Senior Solutions Engineer Australia
Senior Solutions Engineer Australia
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15-03-2025
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Are you ready to power the Worlds connections
If you dont think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job please apply. Nobody checks every box were looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the role:
As part of our Sales organization Kongs Solution Engineers play an instrumental role in our continued growth and success as they align with our Account Executive team and lead the technical sale cycle with new and existing customers. This is a position supporting enterprise and strategic accounts. If you are motivated by the opportunity to drive new business while learning and evangelizing our cuttingedge technology we want to speak to you!
This role is based in Sydney or Melbourne.
What youll be doing:
- Support field sales in helping customers understand the value of the Kong API Management & Connectivity solutions.
- Grow trusted client relationships throughout the entire sales lifecycle from initial discovery/ requirement gathering to product reviews/ demos and into production.
- Lead and manage PoCs throughout the entire evaluation process.
- Work with the Customer Success team to enable new customers and establish revenue potential with existing customers.
- Support and enable partners to drive customer success and outcomes.
- Coordinate with support product and engineering teams to prioritize customer needs and ensure 100 satisfaction across the assigned set of accounts.
- Participate in creative leadgenerating activities such as creating blog posts leading webinars working on industry events etc.
- Ability to travel as required.
What youll bring for success:
- 10 years or more of industry experience in software and technology.
- 5 years or more of presales Solution Engineering or relevant experience at a SaaS Opensource or Enterprise Software company.
- Proven experience working with middleware API management integration opensource technology and Kubernetes.
- Foundational knowledge and understanding of API Management and integration Cloud computing trends and opensource business models.
- Confident ability to present and lead discussions with C or Director level executives as well as Product Managers and Engineers.
- Enthusiasm for working in a highprofile fastpaced startup culture.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!. As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become APIfirst and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises unleash developer productivity build securely and accelerate to market.
83 of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong please visit konghq or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. We are 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 disability or veteran status.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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