Sr. Sales Engineer (Databases)

**Candidate Note: This position is 100% remote for candidates based Southeastern US**

EDB is looking for a technically astute, motivated Sr. Sales Engineer to join our growing team of sales professionals. In particular, we are looking for an experienced Sales Engineer who has a strong developer background. 

Are you an exceptionally technical sales professional? Maybe you’re a developer who loves to go deep on technical products and feature sets and seeks an opportunity to make an impact on the sales side. Either way, we want to speak with you! 

Your impact will be: 

• Partner with EDB Account Executives in their selling efforts and become a trusted customer advocate

• Conduct product proof-of-concepts from initial requirements gathering to successfully achieving objectives and success criteria through clear planning and methodical execution

• Deliver technical product presentations, demonstrating core feature sets and key value propositions

• Evangelize Postgres with developers to support EDB’s efforts to expand our footprint of and demand for Postgres in large enterprise customers

What you will bring: 

• ~5+ years of experience in the following areas:

• Customer-Facing Skills

  • A proven capacity to deliver technical product presentations to technical audiences and executives alike

  • Proficiency demonstrating technical products and their feature sets

• Database, Operating System, and Software Experience

  • Relational database experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, & SQL Server). Active use of, administration, development, using such database(s)

  • A deep understanding of relational database concepts

  • Database server tuning and debugging experience

  • Basic Linux OS system administration experience

  • Software installation and software troubleshooting experience

• Development Know-How

  • Application development experience using Postgres or MongoDB

  • Database schema design and development

  • Excellent knowledge of SQL and SQL query writing, tuning, and debugging

  • Experience developing and implementing user-defined data types and functions in Postgres

• A good understanding of database concepts such as high availability, scalability, performance trade-offs, and security 

• Cloud + Container Skills

  • Private/Public/Hybrid Clouds - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Cloud, and OpenStack, & Virtualization

  • Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, Microservices, PaaS (OpenShift, CloudFoundry) as used with databases