Associate Solutions Engineer (Data Platform)

About Brookside Apps

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

What this job is

We need someone who can build a credible proof of concept in a week and explain it in plain terms. Brookside Apps is hiring another Associate Solutions Engineer (Data Platform) to run demos, answer technical questions and help close deals with mid-market and enterprise customers. Remote, with occasional travel to San Francisco (a few times a year).

What you'll do

• Scope and manage proofs of concept with written success criteria.
• Answer RFPs, RFIs and security questionnaires.
• Travel to customer sites for workshops and executive briefings.
• Train account executives on product updates and competitive positioning.
• Explain architecture, deployment options, SSO and data security to IT and security teams.
• Relay product feedback and feature requests from prospects to product management.
• Hand off closed deals to implementation with documented requirements.

About you

• 1+ years in sales engineering, solutions consulting or another technical customer-facing role.
• Solid understanding of SaaS architecture, APIs, SSO (SAML, OIDC) and cloud hosting.
• Excellent written communication for proposals and follow-ups.
• Ability to write basic scripts or API calls in Python, JavaScript or curl.
• Comfort answering detailed security and compliance questions.

Nice to have

• MEDDPICC or Command of the Message training.

What you get

Expected salary range: $124,000 - $157,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility.

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Employee assistance program.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brookside Apps.