Solutions Engineer
groundcover
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jul 22, 2025
Solutions Engineer
- Sales
- San Francisco
- Senior
- Full-time
Description
groundcover is a fast-growing B2D company reinventing how developers monitor their cloud-native applications — and the impact they can make at scale. We give engineering teams the insights they need to troubleshoot faster and more effectively when things break. Our belief: even the most complex systems deserve a flawless, intuitive user journey.
We're building a product for developers that redefines the look, feel, and usability of observability tools — and we’re expanding our Sales team with an Solutions engineer that breathes B2D.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with our account executives to plan, prepare and execute deals in complex and technical sales cycles.
- Deliver clear presentations and demos that communicate the product uniqueness and the problems it solves
- Manage the technical aspects of the entire sales cycle, including Proof of Concepts/Value
- Understand and communicate customer needs to the product teams for future product enhancements.
- Build solutions to fill gaps and enhance the core product
- Know the Observability and log management markets well and be able to help customers choose the right solutions for them.
- Be active on internal and external Slack channels
- Present at conferences, meetups, podcasts, livestreams etc.
- Go the extra mile to help groundcover disrupt the observability market, by offering thoughts, insights, and suggestions on how we can improve our go to market efforts, and improve the offering.
- Ability to attend in-person events and meetings - and work in office
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a Solutions Engineer or Sales Engineer role – must
- 2+ years of observability experience, with a deep understanding of commercial vendors such as Datadog, Dynatrace, NewRelic, Splunk, Sumologic, Coralogix, and open source tooling such as Elastic, Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
- A ‘can do’ and ‘must win’ attitude, and a willingness to roll up your sleeves to help build whatever is needed to improve our chances of winning business
- Strong understanding of cloud-native environments and modern infrastructure, including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenShift, and observability data sources like CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd/FluentBit, and Prometheus
- Proven customer-facing experience – confident, articulate, and able to lead technical conversations both in-person and over Zoom
- Consultative and analytical, with an ability to identify and solve complete processes and infrastructure
- Willingness and enthusiasm for frequent travel
- Experience as a developer - advantage
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in related discipline. Science or Engineering degree preferred.