Solutions Engineer — Data Security & Compliance

Formal; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

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Job summary

Formal is seeking a Solutions Engineer to partner with customers, deeply understand their infrastructure, and guide deployments of the Formal platform. You will drive technical evaluations, design customized architectures, and collaborate with engineering to deliver ongoing value.

This hybrid role blends strong technical acumen with customer-facing empathy, enabling you to explain complex topics clearly and help teams adopt powerful data-security solutions.

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.
• Ability to clearly explain complex concepts to 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 (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.

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

Skills

Solutions engineering

Technical background

Communication skills

Cloud platforms

Data protocols

Tools

Postgres

Kafka

MySQL

Snowflake

S3

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Job description

Formal is seeking a Solutions Engineer to partner with customers, deeply understand their infrastructure, and guide deployments of the Formal platform. You will drive technical evaluations, design customized architectures, and collaborate with engineering to deliver ongoing value.

This hybrid role blends strong technical acumen with customer-facing empathy, enabling you to explain complex topics clearly and help teams adopt powerful data-security solutions.