Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
You love cloud-native tools and platforms. You’re passionate about building effective GTM strategies and making products resonate in new markets. You zero in on exactly what drives people and how technology can solve their problems. You enjoy speaking with customers, analysts, PMs, and developers. You are scrappy, high empathy, low ego, and enjoy being a part of a team.
- Develop and own the go-to-market plan, segment and persona strategy, messaging, positioning, and storytelling for Kentik Cloud and Synthetics
- Strategize and execute product launches. Determine the metrics needed for success
- Create effective plays and enablement for sales and CS teams
- Develop product demos and deliver technical training
- Co-own competitive intelligence with PM and develop effective competitive battlecards
- Create compelling content for blogs, white papers, slide presentations, www.kentik.com, solutions briefs, webinars, and other media
- Work closely with revenue marketing to develop and support integrated campaigns
- Work closely with PM to align marketing with product features and roadmap
- Able to explain critical cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless, CNIs, VPCs, transit gateways, CloudWatch, and you understand AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI (to the extent that anyone can)
- Fascinated with SRE, infrastructure, platform, and cloud network engineering personas. You know their pain points and motivators. You count some of them as friends, or maybe you even had one of these roles in a prior life
- Knowledgeable and opinionated about network infrastructure technology and protocols, especially for cloud, data center, and digital business architectures
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to collaborate and organize - someone who will quickly execute on an experiment, call a meeting, write a plan, understand the tech or process required to get results
- An engineer in spirit (or practice)
Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.
The compensation range for this position is: $120,000 - $160,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:
- Experience with the skill sets required for success
- Demonstrated competencies and potential
- A geographic market-based approach
In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:
- 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.
The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.
We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.
Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.
Come as you are!
You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
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Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT, or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run, and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights, and insanely fast search. Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host, and container flow, internet routing, performance tests, and network metrics. We show network pros what they need to know about their network performance, health, and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world’s most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik.
