Principal Solutions Engineer (East Coast)

Who we are. Solo.io is reimagining infrastructure for cloud and AI. We unite secure, seamless cloud connectivity with AI-ready, agentic infrastructure, and leading enterprises worldwide trust us to securely connect their applications, services, and AI workloads across any environment. Joining Solo means working at the center of how enterprises adopt AI: on open source projects built in the open with a global community, alongside the people who created them, for customers who are among the largest in the world. If you want to help organizations accelerate innovation, scale intelligently, and put modern AI agents to work, we’d love to meet you. Learn more at www.solo.io. About the role. We are looking for an individual to join as a Solutions Engineer! This person will be collaborating as a pre-sales technical professional to align the customer’s technical challenges with their outcomes. The main focus of this role is to work alongside Sales Executives while providing a technical introduction of our solutions to customers. The field engineering role provides architectural guidance through understanding our customer's challenges and leading them through proof-of-concept use of Solo solutions. This role will require occasional travel, focused on the US East Coast. Job Description: Apply skills as the in-depth seasoned professional to understand a customer’s technical challenges and help them achieve their desired outcomes by building compelling solutions using Solo.io products Lead discovery calls with our sales team to better understand customer challenges related to their cloud migrations, microservices environments, and legacy infrastructure Deliver product presentations, demos, and workshops as needed Plan and execute proof of concepts to validate Solo.io solutions Proactively guide customers through architectural challenges and integration of cloud-native platforms, such as Kubernetes, and Solo.io products Act as a trusted advisor to customers, sales teams, and product teams Establish and maintain knowledge of the product portfolio, related technologies, and the competitive landscape Work with consulting and customer success to help customers successfully adopt Solo.io solutions Evangelize Solo.io products and related technology through speaking engagements (conferences, meetups, webinars) and content (blogs, articles, videos) Job Requirements: 4+ years of experience supporting a technical sales process. 3+ of hands-on experience with Kubernetes Experience building compelling content and demonstrations for cloud native solutions Additional Information: While work is primarily completed virtually, must be willing to travel up to 30% for events, training, and customer meetings if needed Experience of Istio and/or API Gateways is highly desirable What you’ll love about Solo. At Solo, our culture is all about hiring great people, creating a fun and fast-paced work culture, and letting our teams work with our customers to successfully solve their challenges. Solo works collaboratively with our customers, partners and open source communities to deliver technology innovation, technology solutions, architectural best-practices, and hands-on education. Solo uses a unique engagement model with our customers that allows us to quickly make them successful, and continue to work closely with them as their production environments grow. Solo is 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. The company may use AI tools to help sort applicants based on job related criteria. However, the hiring team decides who moves forward and no employment decisions are made by AI.