Senior Partner Solutions Engineer | East Coast | Remote
The Opportunity:
Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer to join its high growth startup environment and help scale cloud partnerships, with a dedicated focus on joint go to market activities with Cloud Service Providers (CSP) including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud (GCP). The successful candidate will be instrumental in enabling partner success through education, enablement, direct engagement, support of events, and build content that helps our CSP’s position and demonstrate Grafana capabilities.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Partnering with Channel Sales and Field Sales to convey Grafana’s vision, value, and technical strategy to cloud partners
Leading technical engagement with partners to drive deal progression and close opportunities
Delivering product demos, technical presentations, and hands-on enablement sessions
Develop and deliver training, onboarding, and ongoing education for solutions architects, and technical teams
Represent Grafana Labs through technical presentations, live demos, webinars, conference sessions, and regional partner events
Create reference architectures, demo environments, solution guides, and presentations that explain the value of Grafana Cloud alongside cloud provider services.
Track partner readiness, reuse of technical assets, and progress of joint opportunities, and bring partner insights back to product and GTM teams
Shaping and expanding the reach of Grafana Partner University across multiple partner personas
Collaborating with internal teams to provide product and competitive feedback
Support selling motions like Sell-To, Embedded, and PoweredBy, either directly or jointly with partners
Run high impact workshops and 1:1 training to generate and progress pipeline
Travelling up to 50% to support cloud partner events, workshops, and field activities
What Makes You a Great Fit:
Located: United States (Remote)
6+ years in pre-sales or solution architecture, ideally within the observability space
Strong experience selling SaaS software across the NORAM region
Proven use of MEDDIC or similar qualification frameworks
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, especially in remote, global teams
Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous, startup environment
Strong judgement, leadership, and problem-solving abilities
Passion for education, enablement, and helping others succeed technically
Bonus Points For:
Experience with CSP’s and a strong understanding of their core infrastructure services.
Experience with cloud marketplaces, co-selling, or joint solution launches.
Solid understanding of observability and cloud native tooling
Background in OSS first companies
Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki
Hands-on experience deploying and operating Kubernetes
Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Compensation & Rewards:
In the United States, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is $204,000 - $244,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.