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Senior Sales Engineer

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, an open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications.

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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.

Overview

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

We feel strongly about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one way to help achieve that. The cash compensation for this role is market competitive, with a range of $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). The pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. The actual pay will vary based on factors including experience, qualifications, and skill level.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
As an equal opportunity employer, Yugabyte is committed to a diverse workforce. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

As an equal opportunity employer, Yugabyte is committed to a diverse workforce. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws.

To review Yugabyte's Privacy Policy please visit Yugabyte Privacy Notice.

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Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, an open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database designed for building global, cloud-native applications. Founded in 2016 by former Facebook engineers Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, and Mikhail Bautin, Yugabyte aims to address the evolving needs of modern enterprises by combining the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL with the resilience, scalability, and geo-distribution capabilities typically associated with NoSQL databases. The founders leveraged their extensive experience in building and operating large-scale distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and HBase at Facebook to create a database solution that can handle mission-critical workloads with low query latency and extreme resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is engineered to simplify data infrastructure management, allowing businesses to focus on innovation and growth rather than the complexities of their database systems.

YugabyteDB offers a unique architecture that includes a high-performance document store, automatic sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, inspired by Google Spanner. This design enables YugabyteDB to serve both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads effectively. The database is 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license, a decision made in 2019 that significantly boosted its adoption and community growth. Yugabyte provides flexible deployment options, allowing YugabyteDB to run across public and private clouds, as well as in Kubernetes environments. The company also offers YugabyteDB Aeon (formerly YugabyteDB Managed), a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform, to further enhance data infrastructure flexibility and efficiency. Yugabyte is trusted by a wide range of organizations, from Fortune 100 companies to startups, across various industries including financial services, retail, e-commerce, telecommunications, and IoT, to power their critical applications and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.

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