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Solutions Engineer

Formal· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Solutions Engineer at Formal focusing on partnering with customers to understand infrastructure, guide technical evaluations, and ensure successful deployments and ongoing value in a hybrid, customer-facing role.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical point of contact for prospects and customers during onboarding, pilots, and expansions
  • 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
  • Work closely with engineering to prioritize and scope technical requests or integrations
  • 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)
  • Gather feedback and relay customer insights to product and engineering to help shape the roadmad

Qualifications

  • Experience in a solutions engineering, sales engineering, or implementation engineering role at a developer-facing company
  • Strong technical background — you’ve written production code, debugged systems, or run infrastructure before
  • Ability to clearly explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern infrastructure tools
  • Comfort working across a variety of systems, APIs, and data protocols (e.g., Postgres, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, S3)
  • A collaborative mindset and a high sense of ownership — you're proactive and love solving problems hands-on
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Skills

Required:Solution engineering expertiseTechnical communicationCloud platformsData systems and protocolsCollaboration & ownership

Benefits

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered for your dependents
  • Flexible PTO
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Formal

The data security platform for datastores and APIs

Formal is the leading data security and infrastructure access platform that secures modern data stacks, helping security teams understand their organization's data schema in real-time, see where sensitive data is stored, how it's consumed across teams and services, and design access and encryption policies.

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