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# Principal Solutions Engineer at SingleStore-LinkedIn

- **Company:** SingleStore-LinkedIn
- **Location:** India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/singlestore-linkedin/jobs/8259110

## Job description

Position Overview

Solution Engineers (SEs) at SingleStore are solving some of the most cutting-edge technical challenges in today’s data-driven world.  When customers evaluate SingleStore, SEs are their trusted technical experts who evaluate, identify, and demonstrate how SingleStore can solve their mission-critical business needs.  As key contributors to our sales organization, Solution Engineers add tremendous value to the customer journey and directly impact company growth and revenue.

In this role, you will be responsible for identifying the technical requirements necessary to deliver business value for our Fortune 1,000 customers.  Working in partnership with Enterprise Account Executives, you will help to acquire new customers and expand existing accounts.  You will do this by leveraging your technical skill set and business acumen to understand complex solutions and create high-quality demos that resonate with our customers.

## Role and Responsibilities

- Partner with Prospects and Customers to understand their industries and strategies, and educate them on SingleStores strategy, technologies and vision.
- Partner with Account Executives to close new business (logos) and expand existing accounts
- Partner with internal teams (Product, Engineering, Support, Marketing etc.) to share feedback on customer needs and requests
- Design, develop, and deploy Proofs of Concept (POCs) with prospective customers
- Drive the technical evaluation stage of the sales cycle, acting as the technical lead/subject matter expert (query tuning, load testing, etc.)
- Work to develop Channels and Partners for co-selling in the region.

Required Skills and Experience

- Fluency in English and regional languages
- Experience with Gen AI, ML and Advanced Analytics
- Experience successfully selling enterprise database technologies, distributed systems, and similar products
- Deep understanding of distributed database technologies, including both analytic and transactional processing
- Expertise executing POCs, with experience designing and deploying complex technologies into existing customer environments
- In-Depth understanding of data platforms, including various competitive products (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
- Experienced in cloud and containerized environments, deployment and orchestration (including Linux and Kubernetes environments)
- Proficient programming skills in Python, Java, or other programming languages
- Ability to travel within the region and internationally
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field

SingleStore is a global database company that empowers the world’s leading organizations to build and scale cutting-edge AI applications on a unified data platform that supports real-time transactions, analytics, and search. Our platform handles streaming data ingestion, vector search, full-text search, and multi-model data types - all with high performance, petabyte-scale capacity, high user concurrency, and low latency.

As a leader recognized by both Gartner and Forrester Wave, SingleStore serves the world ‘s leading data innovators including the top Fortune 500 enterprises. Our 95%+ gross retention rate reflects the strong satisfaction and trusts our customers place in the platform. SingleStore is owned by private equity firm Vector Capital and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices worldwide, including Hyderabad.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

## About SingleStore-LinkedIn

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SingleStore is a real-time distributed SQL database platform that enables enterprises to run transactions and analytics on a single system for intelligent, data-intensive applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; parent company Vector Capital Management)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Eric Frenkiel, Nikita Shamgunov, Adam Prout

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Database software / Real-time data platform (RDBMS, cloud data services)
- **Target customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise, spanning industries like finance, e-commerce, SaaS, and AI-driven applications
- **Mission/purpose**: “One platform for all data, built so you can engage with insight in every moment” – enabling real-time decision-making and AI workloads.

## Products & Services
- **SingleStore (Database Engine)**: Distributed, relational SQL database that supports transactions, analytics, JSON, geospatial, key-value, vector, and time-series data. Deployable on-premises, in any cloud, via Kubernetes, or as a managed service.
- **SingleStore Helios**: Fully managed cloud database service (DBaaS) for simplified deployment and scaling.
- **SingleStore Aura**: AI-powered performance optimization and management layer (mentioned on homepage).
- **Data Lake Integration**: Supports Apache Iceberg and other open table formats for hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; last known funding round $964M total raised)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$100M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding $964.2M across 13 rounds (seed through Series E and later rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Vector Capital (parent), with prior investors including prominent venture firms (e.g., from Series rounds). Partners include cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data ecosystem players.
- **Growth Signals**: 388 employees with offices in US, UK, Portugal, India, Ukraine, Canada, Singapore, Japan, France, Australia. Recent acquisitions of MEMSQL Portugal and SingleStore UK. Active hiring in engineering, sales, and operations (14+ open positions as of mid-2026). LinkedIn follower growth +14.4% yearly.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified HTAP**: Combines transactions and analytics in a single system, eliminating the need for separate databases and ETL pipelines.
- **Real-time performance**: Sub-millisecond queries on petabyte-scale data with ANSI SQL support.
- **Deployment flexibility**: On-prem, cloud, hybrid, Kubernetes – runs anywhere Linux runs.
- **Vector & AI capabilities**: Native support for vector search and time-series, positioning for enterprise AI workloads.
- **Strong engineering talent pool**: Employees recruited from top tech companies (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Oracle, Snowflake, Databricks) and top universities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise AI enablement**: Optimizing the platform for AI/ML workloads (vector databases, real-time inference).
- **Cloud expansion**: Growing Helios (DBaaS) and multi-cloud support (Aura platform).
- **Data lake integration**: Deepening support for open formats like Apache Iceberg to compete in the lakehouse space.
- **Global scaling**: Expanding sales and engineering presence in India, Portugal, and other regions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Customers First, Performance Driven, Innovation Forward, Open & Honest Communication” – values emphasized on careers page.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: “Work remotely if it makes sense for you, your position, your team, and the company.” Many roles remote or hybrid; offices in SF, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Raleigh, London, Lisbon, Kyiv, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision, 401k, flexible time off, parental leave, stock grants (equity), home office stipend ($500), cell/internet stipend, fitness subsidy, Modern Health app, charitable donation matching with paid volunteer time off, fertility/family formation reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: High performance, modern tech stack (distributed systems, cloud-native, AI platforms). Strong internal mobility and career development.
- **Employee ratings**: 4.0/5.0 overall on LinkedIn (Work-Life 4.0, Compensation 4.0, Culture 3.8, Career 3.9).

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/singlestore)
2. [SingleStore Careers Page](https://www.singlestore.com/careers/)
3. [SingleStore Jobs (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/singlestore-linkedin)
4. [SingleStore Homepage](https://www.singlestore.com/)

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