About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Conditions
- Cash compensation range: $200,000-$250,000, inclusive of variable/incentive for some roles. As well as equity (when applicable), and benefits including health plans, retirement plans, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).