Staff Customer Solutions Engineer

Make a difference.

This is an exciting opportunity to be an early member of our new elite Customer Solutions Engineering team. This team will be our in-house customer-facing solution experts. The Customer Solutions Engineer is a deep technical and sales specialist who will own the platform adoption and expansion experience for Grafana's customers. They will be responsible for the rapid and successful application of our technology. The Customer SE team enables Grafana Labs’s worldwide growth by educating existing customers to ensure they are happy and successful.  We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos hands-on enablement presentations design guidance technical evaluations and ongoing interaction. We also partner closely with our Sales team to help qualify and close opportunities. The Customer SE team is also one of the primary communication routes from our customers through into the Product Management and Engineering teams.

Your Impact:

• Provide general design and implementation guidance and help to implement Grafana Gloud (including applicable data sources authentication alerting dashboards and more)

• Educating and enabling viewers editors and architects how to leverage the Grafana stack

• Perform Monthly health checks and identify trends from support tickets.  Help escalate accordingly.  Assist in RCA.

• Assist with building/modifying critical SLA dashboards within the production environment.

• Work closely with our sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition vision and strategy to customers.

• Propose design create and present prototypes demos and proofs-of-concept to a wide variety of audiences from engineers to SREs.

• Own the technical engagement with customers and help to close high-velocity opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge technical skill credibility and rapport.

• Deliver product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers

• Proactively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide a feedback loop on our products and the competitive landscape

• Drive product conversations based on need and problems learned during customer interactions

• Work with the team to enhance documentation write blog posts record videos contribute knowledge base articles and create other public and internal enablement material

What would make you a good fit for this role?

• 5+ years of experience in technical sales experience ideally with Open Source technologies or in the Metrics/Monitoring space.

• You will be creative in solving Customer Adoption Challenges.

• Proactively assist customers with technical issues that may arise and assist in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

• Identify and provide timely workarounds and solutions to meet a customer’s business needs.

• Deeply knowledgeable of the Operational Expertise in the Grafana Platform (LGTM)

• You have extensive Grafana Deployment Design Expertise

• You will need first class written and oral communication skills to collaborate with our remote-first internal teams and with our worldwide customers.  You will need to be able to skillfully articulate our value proposition and the technical advantages of our products

• You will love solving technical challenges and thrive on bringing creative solutions to our customers

• You should have a technical mindset and a desire to grow technically.

In the United Kingdom the OTE compensation range for this role is £119000-142000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level experience and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed on our careers page.