Solutions Engineer III, Corporate

GitHub; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is expanding its Corporate Solutions Engineering team in Europe and is seeking experienced Solutions Engineers to enhance pre-sales support for corporate customers. You will align technology solutions with customer needs and act as a trusted advisor, collaborating with sales and product teams to design and communicate solutions that meet business objectives.

The role emphasizes solving complex technical challenges, driving product adoption, and shaping strategic decisions while staying

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience.
• OR Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years’ experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience.
• OR Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field,
• OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain technical relationships in the pre-sales stage with business customers and prospects.
• Collaborate with Corporate Sales to identify customer requirements and demonstrate GitHub Enterprise.
• Bridge between sales and technical teams, relay customer feedback to product teams.
• Educate prospects on implementation and usage, advocate for customer interests.
• Guide customers on integrating GitHub with existing development tools and workflows.
• Maintain awareness of trends in the Source Control Management industry and contribute to documentation.
• Articulate value of DevOps, DevSecOps and AI-powered development platform to external stakeholders.
• Lead initiatives to improve customer success and retention through best practices and workshops.
• Support sales strategies with technical insights and competitive analysis.

Skills

Technical consulting

Technical selling

Sales experience

French language

German language

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / IT / Engineering

Master's degree in CS / IT / Engineering

Doctorate in CS / IT / Engineering

Tools

SAST tools

DAST tools

SCA tools

GitHub Advanced Security

Job description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, Netherlands

Overview

GitHub is expanding its Corporate Solutions Engineering team and we're seeking experienced professionals to enhance our pre-sales support of our corporate customers. As a Solutions Engineer, you'll align technology solutions with customer needs and serve as a trusted advisor.

The ideal candidate will be a key partner in driving technology adoption and integration, helping customers maximize GitHub’s value while gaining hands‑on experience in solving complex technical challenges, deepening industry expertise, and influencing strategic decision‑making.

Internally, you will collaborate with sales and product development toidentify, design, and communicate solutions to meet customers' business needs. This person acts as a partner for the sales teams, collaborates with our front‑line technical support team, and other functional departments within the company.

We're extremely passionate about the quality of our work. If you are technically sharp and people oriented, you might be a fit for this role! We are looking to immediately fill this position in Europe.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain technical relationships in the pre‑sales stage with business customers and prospects, acting as a key technical point of contact to ensure customer satisfaction and product adoption.

• Collaborate with the Corporate Sales team to identify customer business requirements, match them to product features, and provide live demonstrations of the GitHub Enterprise platform.

• Serve as an intermediary between sales and technical teams, communicating customer feedback to influence product strategy and contributing to internal knowledge bases.

• Educate prospects on product implementation and usage, while advocating for customer interests by sharing feedback within GitHub.

• Advises customers on how to integrate GitHub with existing development tools and workflows, providing technical guidance on DevOps pipelines and code deployment, AI usage and adoption.

• Maintain awareness of trends in the Source Control Management industry and contribute to both internal and customer documentation to support product usage and adoption.

• Articulate the value of DevOps, DevSecOps and the AI‑powered development platform to external stakeholders through pre‑sales presentations, product demonstrations, and technical documentation.

• Lead initiatives aimed at improving customer success and retention by developing best practices for product usage and facilitating workshops or training sessions for customers.

• Participate in the development of sales strategies by providing technical insights and competitive analysis to help position GitHub's offerings effectively against the competitors.

• Contributes to customer skilling initiatives and execution in collaboration with relevant internal teams (e.g., Marketing). Provides live demonstration of GitHub platform to customers. Explains how GitHub solutions fit in with the existing customer environment and makes appropriate recommendations

• Builds and maintains broad knowledge of GitHub's product landscape, solutions, and strategy in the customer's industry, as well as of business priorities and potential threats the customers face

• Contributes to efforts with technical teams to solve technical challenges and pain points, as necessary.

• Acts as the voice of the customer and internal advocate by providing feedback and challenges from the customer to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers).

• Helps build and deliver content for marketing events. Under guidance, assembles materials for distribution during events.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience,
  • OR bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years’ experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience,
  • OR master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field,
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience

  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, or related technical/sales/industry experience

  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field o OR equivalent experience

• 1+ year(s) experience in digital transformation using software modernization to drive customer business outcomes

• 1+ year(s) experience in business consulting, consultative selling, or customer facing experience

• Proficiency in enterprise software development and application security practices, including experience with SAST, DAST, and SCA tools, as well as an understanding of GitHub Advanced Security and CodeQL

• Business Level Proficiency in any of the following languages: French OR German

GitHub Leadership Principles

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open‑source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote‑first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

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