Solutions Engineer
Pre-sales Solutions Engineer partnering with sales to drive adoption of a real-time database platform. Responsible for technical presentations, solution architecture, proof of concepts, customer feedback, and training sales teams. Requires strong Linux, database, and coding skills with customer-facing experience.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and deliver technical presentations to explain products or services to customers.
- Discuss equipment needs and system requirements with customers and engineers.
- Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support.
- Research, develop, and identify product modifications to meet customers' technical requirements.
- Solicit and log client feedback, evaluate data to create new sales and marketing strategies.
- Identify areas for improvement and communicate issues and solutions to upper management and product managers.
- Set and achieve sales goals and quotas.
- Train other members of the sales team on technical aspects of products and services.
Requirements
- Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Customer-facing skills directed toward C-Level and Developers.
- Linux experience is a must.
- Knowledge of databases: NoSQL, Relational, Distributed, MPP.
- Self-starter able to assess, prioritize, and complete work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem: Spark, HBase, HDFS, Hive, Impala.
- Independent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Understanding of mission critical applications.
- Strong coding skills in at least one language: Java, C/C++, Python, Go, etc.
Nice to have
- Experience with specific databases: Aerospike, Yugabyte, Cockroach, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, etc.
- Cloud experience: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud.
- Docker and Kubernetes.
- Compute knowledge: Networking, CPUs, SSDs, Memory, etc.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
- Previous experience working for a small to medium business.