Solutions Engineer, Enterprise - North America

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

Do you love helping customers implement innovative solutions and solve technical problems? Do you have a passion for learning about the latest technologies? Do you have a knack for helping customers understand the unique business value that a technical solution provides? Are you ready to bring a combination of technical skills, business acumen, and a do-whatever-it-takes attitude to help customers successfully leverage the Kentik solution to transform their businesses?
Kentik is looking for a Solutions Engineer to support our growing presales team and help bring the Kentik solution to market. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of Kentik’s most important technical teams, work with some of the best and brightest engineers in the industry, and develop your skills within one of the most innovative companies in the network intelligence space. Solution Engineers at Kentik have the opportunity to help shape our product strategy and enable a broad set of use cases by working directly with our customers.

• Manage all technical aspects of the sales journey including product demonstration, proof of concept, and feature requests
• Respond to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs
• Assist marketing in identifying opportunities to expand product marketing collateral to help close sales opportunities
• Champion of listening to customer requirements to channel product feedback and feature requests to the product management organization
• In collaboration with Customer Success, post-sales engineering check-ins with customers to maintain high customer success rates, share new features and product roadmap, and help customers integrate with their own in-house tools and systems
• Work in tandem with account team to meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual booking objectives
• Attend trade shows, conferences, and meetups
• Travel to customers in designated territory

• 5+ years experience in a high tech sales/solutions engineering or systems/network engineering role
• Ability to conduct technical conversations with prospects ranging from staff-level engineers and architects to senior executives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience managing Cisco/Juniper routers and Linux servers
• Strong understanding of network and application protocols (e.g. Netflow, SNMP, BGP, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP) and their use for infrastructure design and operations
• Strong understanding of cloud and internet-scale networking, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments, routing, and traffic patterns
• Experience with network observability and telemetry concepts, and troubleshooting performance, availability, and routing issues in modern infrastructures
• Programming proficiency in a scripting language
• Understanding of DDoS attacks and basic mitigation methods
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time - must be located near a major airport

Nice to haves:

• Previous work experience selling to network and systems engineers and architects from Tier 1 and 2 carrier networks.
• Background or product interest in security, performance, monitoring, and/or infrastructure space
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, Ansible, or Perl
• Basic database and/or SQL experience
• Familiarity with open source technologies such as LibreNMS, Elastic, Grafana, and Prometheus
• In depth knowledge of one or more public cloud architectures (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Early member of a sales team at a hyper-growth startup

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.

The base salary range for this position is: $136,500 - $164,500 with an expected overall targeted earnings (OTE) range of: $195,000 - $235,000. The salary range and OTE reflect the low and high end of the U.S. range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:

• Experience with the skill sets required for success
• Demonstrated competencies and potential 
• A geographic market-based approach

In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave 
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement 
• Stock options

Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.

• Kentik will never ask for payment or fees of any kind as part of our recruitment process.
• All official job offers and communications will originate from a verified @Kentik.com email address.
• Trust only the application methods and contact details listed on this official careers site.

The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik. 

We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status. 

Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected].

Come as you are!
You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.

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