Formal
Solutions Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 464 days ago
PostgreSQLMySQLSnowflakeAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDatadogTemporalKafkaRecruitingCommunication
About the role
- This is a hybrid role that blends strong technical acumen with customer-facing empathy.
- If you're someone who loves diving into technical architecture, explaining complex topics clearly, and helping teams adopt powerful products, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Lead deep technical conversations with engineering, security, and data teams at modern companies
- Design and deliver customized solution architectures that demonstrate the value of Formal's platform
- Build internal tooling, scripts, or resources to accelerate onboarding and repeatability
- Develop and maintain deep expertise in Formal's product, data protocols, and adjacent ecosystem (e.g., Postgres, Kafka, S3, Snowflake)
Compensation
- This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant.
- The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, and business requirements.
- Partially covered for your dependents
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
Company info
- About Formal
- Formal is data security platform designed to help teams understand and control their data on autopilot.
- We're building a modern protocol-aware reverse-proxy for datastores and APIs that helps organizations understand their data in real-time.
- This allows teams to see how sensitive data is stored, consumed, and used in order to enforce least privilege through masking, filtering, or anonymization policies.
- We are trusted by leading companies such as Ramp, Gusto, Notion to solve problems across data security and compliance, data quality management, and infrastructure access.
- Formal is backed by top-tiers VCs including Thrive Capital and Y Combinator with angel investors that include executives and founders from Datadog, Clickhouse, Plaid, and Vanta.
- We're looking for a Solutions Engineer who will partner closely with our customers and prospects to deeply understand their infrastructure and workflows, guide technical evaluations, and ensure successful deployments and ongoing value.
- Act as the technical point of contact for prospects and customers during onboarding, pilots, and expansions
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