Sales Engineer

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $190,000 PA - $208,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Aerospike is seeking a technically proficient Sales Engineer to support the sales of its real-time data platform. Responsibilities include maintaining deep product knowledge, assisting with sales requiring technical expertise, and relating technical information to non-technical clients. The role involves preparing and delivering technical presentations, collaborating with sales teams, generating leads, and researching product modifications. The Sales Engineer will also provide customer support, gather feedback, identify improvement areas, and train sales team members on technical aspects. This pre-sales position requires a strong understanding of mission-critical applications and the ability to communicate technical requirements to product management and engineering.
Must have:
  • Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent customer-facing skills
  • Linux experience
  • Databases (NoSQL, Relational, Distributed)
  • Self-starter with minimal supervision
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Hadoop experience
  • Independent problem solving
  • Understand mission-critical applications
  • Strong coding skills (Java, C/C++, Python, Go)
Good to have:
  • Aerospike, Yugabyte, Cockroach, MongoDB, Cassandra experience
  • Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Docker and Kubernetes knowledge
  • Compute knowledge (Networking, CPUs, SSDs, Memory)
  • Ability to travel up to 30%
  • Experience in small to medium businesses
  • Knowledge Graph, Timeseries, Feature Stores

Job Details

 

At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability.

We empower companies to tackle seemingly insurmountable challenges and achieve what’s never been done before. That’s why we developed the world’s leading real-time database—powering mission-critical applications for the most innovative, category-disrupting organizations.

Aerospike enables extreme-scale, real-time applications that:

  • Fight fraud in microseconds.
  • Drive dramatic increases in shopping cart size.
  • Power global digital payments.
  • Deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions.

Industry leaders like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media, and Wayfair trust Aerospike as the foundation for their future. They rely on us to act in the moments that matter.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv, Aerospike is the uncontested leader in next-generation, always-on, hyperscale data solutions. Unlike legacy NoSQL systems, our patented Hybrid Memory Architecture unlocks today’s hardware to deliver unimaginable performance and value for the most demanding data workloads—from the edge, to the core, to the cloud.

If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.

Sales Engineer, Remote, USA

Job Summary

Aerospike is looking for a technically strong sales engineer to assist with selling of our real-time data platform products and services. The Sales Engineer's responsibilities include maintaining extensive knowledge of the products' parts, functions, and processes and assisting in closing sales where technical expertise may be required to fit the client's needs.

To be successful as a sales engineer, you should possess an in-depth knowledge of our company's technical products and services and be able to relate this knowledge in a way that is understandable to non-technical customers. You should be driven to achieve your sales goals and should have excellent sales and customer service skills.

The ideal candidate is a great listener with a talent for solving technical challenges. 

This is a pre-sales position.

Responsibilities:

Preparing and developing technical presentations to explain our company's products or services to customers.

  • Discussing equipment needs and system requirements with customers and engineers.
  • Collaborating with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support.
  • Generating high-quality sales leads, following up after initial contact, and securing and renewing orders.
  • Researching, developing, and identifying modifying products to meet customers' technical requirements and needs.
  • Helping customers who have problems with installed products and recommending best practices for upgrades and.
  • Soliciting and logging client feedback and evaluating the data to create new sales and marketing strategies to target customers.
  • Identifying areas for improvement and communicating these issues as well as possible solutions to upper management, including product managers.
  • Setting and achieving sales goals and quotas.
  • Training other members of the sales team on the technical aspects of the company's products and services.

Prerequisites

  • Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent customer-facing skills directed toward C-Level and Developers
  • Linux experience is a must
  • Databases; NoSQL, Relational, Distributed, MPP
  • Self-starter: must be able to assess, prioritize and complete work with minimal supervision
  • Ability to work well under pressure
  • Hadoop; Spark, HBase, HDFS, Hive, Impala
  • Independent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Understand the complexities of mission critical applications
  • Feedback field requirements to product management and engineering 
  • Enable customers and partners through Meetups, ‘Beer and Curry’, Training sessions and Hack-a-Thons
  • Knowledge Graph, Timeseries, and Feature Stores
  • Language: Strong coding skills in at least one language: Java, C/C++, Python, Go,etc

Preferred

  • Database; Aerospike, Yugabyte, Cockroach, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, etc.
  • Cloud; AWS, Microsoft, Google 
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Compute knowledge; Networking, CPUs, SSDs, Memory, etc.
  • The ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
  • Previous experience working for a small to medium business

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

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About The Company

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aerospike also has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. Aerospike does not accept resumes from staffing agencies with which we do not have a written agreement and specific engagement for a particular opening. Our employment activities, inquiries, and offers are managed through our HR/Talent department, and all candidates are presented through this channel only. We do not accept unsolicited resumes.

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