Solutions Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Established · in 1.8% of HN hiring posts · 784 open roles at 64 companies · median $212k · first seen Jul 2011
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago12 of 64 companies (top 12 shown)
| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Databricks | 202 | |
| 2 |  Cloudflare | 63 | |
| 3 |  Datadog | 54 | |
| 4 |  Snowflake | 51 | |
| 5 |  MongoDB | 37 | |
| 6 |  Nebius | 25 | |
| 7 |  Stripe | 25 | |
| 8 |  Elastic | 23 | |
| 9 |  Samsara | 20 | |
| 10 |  Wiz | 19 | |
| 11 |  ElevenLabs | 17 | |
| 12 |  Cribl | 15 |
Open roles
8 of 784; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Senior Associate, AI Solutions Architect, Marketing Technology DoorDashNew York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Washingto$83k to $122k | DoorDash | New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Washingto | $83k to $122k |
Senior Sales Engineer PrefectRemote$154k to $222k | Prefect | Remote | $154k to $222k |
Security Specialist Solutions Architect ClickHouseUnited States$275k to $300k | ClickHouse | United States | $275k to $300k |
| Solutions Engineer, Florida (Enterprise)CriblRemote - United States$206k to $250k | Cribl | Remote - United States | $206k to $250k |
Partner Solutions Engineer VercelHybrid - San Francisco$176k to $225k | Vercel | Hybrid - San Francisco | $176k to $225k |
Senior solutions architect (Central) WriterChicago, IL$194k to $228k | Writer | Chicago, IL | $194k to $228k |
Senior Account Solutions Architect CoreWeaveSan Francisco, CA$182k to $242k | CoreWeave | San Francisco, CA | $182k to $242k |
| Sr. Solutions Engineer - GamesDatabricksSouthwest - United States$152k to $209k | Databricks | Southwest - United States | $152k to $209k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
1,477 posts since Apr 2011 · -12% in 6 monthsSeptember 2026 4 of 256 postings, 1.6%
Related titles
About this title
The technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.
Also counted: sales engineer, solutions architect, customer engineer
First sighting
...specialists * director of operations engineering * solutions architect (support/marketing/sales) Check out http://mixpanel.com/jobs to apply
Median posted salary $212k from 282 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.