Partner Solutions Engineer | US | Remote

USD 204,000-244,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Grafana @ 3 Kubernetes @ 3 Prometheus @ 3 Leadership @ 6 Communication @ 3 OSS @ 3 Observability @ 3 AI @ 3

Details

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with more than 20M users of Grafana and a customer base of over 3,000 companies. The company provides observability tooling including Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise Stack, Grafana Mimir (metrics), Grafana Loki (logs), and Grafana Tempo (traces).

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to partners, enabling partner success through education, enablement, and direct engagement.
  • Partner with Channel Sales and Field Sales to convey Grafana’s vision, value, and technical strategy to partners.
  • Lead technical engagement with partners to drive deal progression and close opportunities.
  • Deliver product demos, technical presentations, and hands-on enablement sessions.
  • Shape and expand the reach of Grafana Partner University across multiple partner personas.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to provide product and competitive feedback.
  • Support selling motions such as Sell-To, Embedded, and PoweredBy, directly or jointly with partners.
  • Run high-impact workshops and 1:1 training to generate and progress pipeline.
  • Travel up to 50% to support partner engagements.

Requirements

  • Located in the United States.
  • 6+ years in pre-sales or solution architecture, ideally within the observability space.
  • Strong experience selling SaaS software across the APJ region.
  • Proven use of MEDDIC or similar qualification frameworks.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, especially for remote, global teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous, startup environment.
  • Strong judgment, leadership, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Passion for education, enablement, and helping others succeed technically.

Bonus Points

  • Background in OSS-first companies.
  • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
  • Solid understanding of observability and cloud-native tooling.
  • Hands-on experience deploying and operating Kubernetes.
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Benefits

  • In the United States, OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range: $204,000 - $244,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset.
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • 100% remote company culture with global collaboration.
  • In-person onboarding.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days).
  • Emphasis on transparent communication, innovation, career growth, and an open-source culture.

Equal Opportunity & Recruitment Notes

  • Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer and states they may utilize AI tools in recruitment to assist matching CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will manually review CVs to identify alignment with openings.