Solutions Engineer

Solutions Engineer

Onsite – New York City (5 Days Per Week)

$170,000 - $200,000 Base

We're working with one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in the developer tooling space that's helping engineering teams dramatically improve the performance and efficiency of their CI/CD environments.

Following exceptional growth, they're now looking to hire a Solutions Engineer to join their New York team and play a key role in helping customers evaluate, adopt, and scale a highly technical platform used by some of the world's most respected engineering organisations.

The Why? (just a couple of highlights...)

🔹 Work engineer-to-engineer – Partner directly with Engineering Leaders, Platform Teams, SREs and CTOs to solve complex infrastructure challenges

🔹 Join a company in hyper-growth – Be part of a business that has reached significant ARR in under two years and is continuing to scale rapidly

The What?

• You'll sit at the intersection of Sales, Engineering and Product, helping customers understand how the platform can improve CI/CD performance, reduce infrastructure costs and streamline developer workflows.
• This is a highly technical, customer-facing role where you'll lead discovery sessions, deliver product demonstrations, run proof-of-concepts and act as a trusted advisor throughout the evaluation process.

Key Things You'll Be Doing

• Leading technical discovery and qualification sessions with engineering and platform teams
• Delivering product demonstrations, technical workshops and architecture discussions
• Designing and executing proof-of-concepts to validate technical and commercial value
• Acting as a trusted advisor to engineering stakeholders throughout the sales cycle
• Helping customers optimise CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows and infrastructure performance
• Troubleshooting technical challenges and supporting customer evaluations
• Working closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence future product development
• Identifying opportunities for customer expansion and long-term adoption
• Supporting successful handovers from pre-sales to onboarding and customer success teams

What You'll Bring

✅ Experience working as a Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer or Technical Pre-Sales professional

✅ Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines or developer tooling

✅ Experience engaging directly with engineering teams and technical decision makers

✅ Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders

✅ Experience running proof-of-concepts and driving technical wins throughout the sales process

✅ A commercial mindset with the ability to connect technical solutions to business outcomes

✅ Someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments

ONSITE WORKING

This role is based in New York City with the team working together onsite five days per week.

And finally... Who are we?

FORT - Future of Recruiting Technologists is a technical & IT search consultancy that specialises in placing experienced professionals & teams with leading technology companies.

We strive to provide our candidates with the most transformative opportunities available. For our clients we understand that technical expertise alone does not make for the best employee. We take time to ensure a strong cultural and technical fit through deep understanding of our client's business and project needs. Ultimately, we pair technologists with businesses based on more than just skills.

Our values and standards are the bedrock of every interaction; Continual Development, Compassion and Consistency.