Solutions Engineer

Lavendo

$125K — $155K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-7 years in a customer-facing technical role at a technical SaaS company
  • Early-stage startup experience or combined Big Tech and B2B experience
  • Familiarity with sales methodologies like MEDDIC
  • Hands-on experience with APIs, distributed systems, and production infrastructure
  • Proficient in Python with experience writing tools
  • Background in data infrastructure, ML platforms, or document processing is a plus
  • Must not require visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Own technical touchpoints in the sales cycle, including discovery and demos
  • Deploy and configure extraction pipelines in customer environments
  • Diagnose and resolve issues across distributed systems
  • Build Python tooling and utilities for customer integrations
  • Funnel customer insights into product roadmap

Benefits

  • Backed by top investors like Sequoia Scout and Y Combinator
  • Proven platform with existing high-profile customers
  • Small team size provides direct access to founders
  • Offers competitive compensation, including equity
  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, vision, dental, and meal stipend
Full Job Description
Tech stack: Python, Kubernetes, APIs, Distributed Systems, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Helm, Terraform

What You'll Do
  • Own all technical touchpoints in the sales cycle - discovery, demos, proof-of-concept evaluations, and production rollouts
  • Deploy and configure extraction pipelines inside customer environments, from pilots through to enterprise-scale production
  • Diagnose and resolve accuracy, latency, and infrastructure issues across distributed systems - be the person customers trust when things get hard
  • Build Python tooling and customer-facing utilities to support integrations and downstream workflows
  • Sit at the intersection of customer, ML, platform, and product - funnel real signal back into the roadmap


What You Bring
  • 3-7 years in a customer-facing technical role - Solutions Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or Implementation Engineer at a technical SaaS company (not a simple SaaS; your customers had real infrastructure questions)
  • Early-stage startup experience (Seed-Series B); Big Tech background considered only if paired with genuine startup and B2B-focused experience
  • Solid grip on sales methodology - MEDDIC, Command of the Message, or equivalent; you know how deals get stuck and how to unstick them
  • Hands-on with APIs, distributed systems, and production infrastructure; Kubernetes experience is a strong plus
  • Proficient in Python - you write tools, not just read them
  • Background in data infrastructure, ML platforms, or document processing is a meaningful plus
  • Must not require visa sponsorship - the company cannot sponsor at this stage


Key Success Drivers
  • You're technical and customer-obsessed - you can go deep on infrastructure in one conversation and then translate it into business value in the next
  • You run toward ambiguity - early-stage means the playbook isn't written yet; you're comfortable writing it
  • You stay in the customer lane - your career shows consistent commitment to customer-facing roles; pivots to pure engineering signal the wrong fit
  • You have a builder's instinct - deploying pipelines and writing integration code feels natural, not foreign
  • You care about what you're selling - document intelligence, computer vision, NLP, and data infrastructure genuinely excite you


Why Join?
  • Tier-1 conviction from day one: Backed by Sequoia Scout, Y Combinator, Daniel Gross, and Nat Friedman - the investor syndicate that bets on category winners
  • This is a proven platform, not a bet: Already processing 1B+ pages for Fortune 50 enterprises and leading global PE firms; real revenue, real customers, real scale
  • Small team, real ownership: 33 people means direct founder access and outsized impact - you're not a ticket in a queue
  • Compensation that reflects the role: $125K-$155K base, OTE $180K-$220K, competitive equity, and performance bonus
  • Full benefits: Medical, vision, and dental; daily meal stipend; relocation assistance for Bay Area moves


Interviewing Process
  • HR Screen
  • Interview with Hiring Manager
  • Technical Interview with CTO
  • Take-Home Exercise
  • Offer

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