Senior Sales Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Sales Engineer to join our fast-growing global sales team. As a Sales Engineer at Yugabyte, you'll act as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers by demonstrating how YugabyteDB can solve complex distributed data problems in real-world applications. You'll work alongside account executives, product managers, and engineering to guide customers through evaluation, adoption, and successful implementation of our technology. You will Partner with Account Executives to qualify opportunities, understand customer requirements, and drive technical sales efforts. Conduct tailored product demos, architecture deep-dives, and hands-on workshops for prospective customers. Lead proof-of-concept (POC) engagements, working directly with customer engineers to design, deploy, and validate YugabyteDB in their environment. Serve as a trusted technical advisor on distributed databases, cloud-native architectures, and application design best practices. Create and maintain technical collateral (presentations, whitepapers, demo scripts, etc.) to support the sales process. Act as the voice of the customer by providing feedback to product, engineering, and support teams. Represent Yugabyte at industry events, webinars, and technical meetups.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, etc.) in enterprise software or infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of databases (SQL, NoSQL), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with distributed systems, data replication, and high-availability architectures.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical topics.
• Passion for helping customers succeed and a track record of owning technical sales wins.
• Hands-on experience with YugabyteDB or similar distributed SQL or SQL technologies (AuroraDB, Google Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB etc.).
• Familiarity with modern application stacks (Spring Boot, Node.js, Golang, GraphQL).
• Experience in selling or supporting open-source software.
• #LI-Remote
• Equal Employment Opportunity Statement :

Benefits

Additional Information

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB , the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide. Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits. Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries. About Yugabyte Reimagining PostgreSQL for a Cloud-Native World - that's the mission of Yugabyte. YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database purpose-built for modern, cloud-native applications. It's designed from the ground up to be resilient, scalable, and flexible. As large enterprises modernize and born-in-the-cloud companies build disruptive solutions, many turn to PostgreSQL as their database of choice-and YugabyteDB quickly becomes their preferred distributed Postgres of choice. There's nothing more rewarding than hearing a customer say they experienced an availability zone or region outage, yet their database stayed fully available with YugabyteDB.

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