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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Alliance Solutions Engineer - **Company:** Vates SAS - **Location:** Grenoble, France (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Integration Architecture, User Authentication, Bash Shell, Distributed Systems, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Python (Programming Language), Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Management of Software Versions, YAML, Scripting, Enterprise Integration, Api Management, Golang - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://fr.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5518c66be3a03ed7 ## About the Role * Strong experience in integration engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or partner engineering. * Production-quality coding ability in relevant languages such as YAML, Python, Go, Shell, other languages commonly used in solution integration. * Solid understanding of APIs, authentication methods, HTTP patterns, plugin ecosystems, scripting, and automation. * Ability to read and assess partner technical documentation, SDKs, release notes, and API contracts critically. * Experience designing and documenting integration architectures with clear support and maintenance boundaries. * Ability to define practical validation evidence and acceptance conditions for integrations without turning that work into bureaucratic list governance. * Ability to troubleshoot across distributed systems, interoperability issues, configuration layers, and partner/Vates product interactions. * Familiarity with versioning discipline, compatibility validation, and lifecycle maintenance of shipped technical artifacts. * Ability to produce concise technical documentation that can be reused by Sales, Professional Services, Support, and partners., The ideal candidate profile is oriented towards senior technical integration work at the intersection of product, partner ecosystem, and solution delivery. * several years of experience in solutions engineering, integrations, technical partnerships, field engineering, or product-adjacent engineering * hands-on experience building and maintaining real integration artifacts - strong partner- or customer-facing communication ability * enough seniority to challenge weak assumptions, refuse out-of-scope work when necessary, and escalate cleanly * enough practical delivery skill to turn a partner technical conversation into a working artifact within days or weeks when the work is in scope ## Description Vates is a French software company specializing in virtualization, offering a credible alternative to proprietary solutions on the market. Our Vates VMS solution enables companies to manage their IT infrastructures in a simple, efficient, and controlled way. The Alliance Solutions Engineer (ASE) is the senior technical solution-engineering counterpart to the Alliances function. The role exists to turn partner relationships into technically credible, supportable, and repeatable integrated solutions for Vates. The ASE works at the intersection of Alliances, Product, Professional Services, Sales SE, and Vates and partner's engineering teams. The ASE shapes feasibility, integration architecture, operational validation, and scoped technical delivery. Your Responsibilities: * Act as the named technical contact for assigned VAN members and other active vendor relationships on the Vates side. * Own first-line technical triage for inbound alliance-related technical requests. * Lead technical discovery and feasibility assessment for new or evolving integrations; surface technical and operational risks. * Define integration architecture for in-scope integrations: protocol choice, authentication model, data flow, error handling, and boundary assumptions. * Build, validate, ship and maintain in-scope integration artifacts, including manifests, scripts, automation, plugins, connectors, and scoped reference implementations. * Contribute technical review and co-authorship to partner-facing assets such as Solutions, Solution Briefs, Solution Guides, Knowledge base articles and integration records. * Work in close operating cadence with Professional Services so that standard alliance integrations reflect field deployment reality. * Provide technical input to business cases for alliance investments, including feasibility, effort, sustaining cost, and architectural risk. * Work closely with hardware certification teams and contribute to HCL (does not own formal certification-program). ## Related Videos - [CI/CD with Github Actions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/856-ci-cd-with-github-actions) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [JavaScript? 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