Pre-Sales Engineer, North America | Careers at QuestDB

About QuestDB

QuestDB is the low-latency time-series database on open codecs. It ingests hundreds of thousands of occasions per second, computes on stay knowledge in milliseconds, and retains years of historical past queryable: one SQL engine spanning messaging, stream processing and tiered storage, so groups can act on what is going on and study from every little thing that occurred.

The engine is written in low-latency Java (zero-GC), Rust, C++ and meeting: columnar storage, vectorized and JIT-compiled SQL, streaming materialized views, and an open lakehouse tier on Parquet and Iceberg. QuestDB Enterprise turns a single server into a completely distributed deployment with a multi-tiered lakehouse structure, prepared for mission-critical workloads on the essential path.

Our open-source repository has handed 17k GitHub stars and we are the fastest-growing database in our class. QuestDB runs in manufacturing at tier-1 banks, exchanges, buying and selling corporations, hedge funds, crypto platforms and vitality operators throughout 4 continents, and is increasing into robotics, aerospace and Physical AI. We not too long ago gained Best Trading Analytics Platform on the TradingTech Summit Europe, the primary non-legacy vendor to take action.

Working at QuestDB

We rent proficient and passionate individuals who share our mission to empower builders to unravel their issues with knowledge. We are constructing breakthrough expertise to energy the roads of tomorrow.

• Work with world-class engineers, together with two teammates who positioned within the prime 10 of the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC).
• We spend money on a tradition that promotes possession, autonomy and impartial pondering.
• We have clear management and worth staff’ strategic enter.
• Our staff is formidable and tackles essentially the most tough issues on the deepest knowledge roads layer.

The function

We’re hiring a pre-sales engineer for North America to personal the technical facet of each gross sales cycle within the area.

You personal the technical validation that occurs earlier than a deal is signed: discovery, a time-boxed proof of idea with success standards agreed up entrance, benchmarks run on the shopper’s personal knowledge that their engineers can reproduce, structure sign-off and safety overview, by way of to the primary manufacturing workload. You are the engineer within the room when a financial institution’s platform staff asks how replication and failover truly work, or when an aerospace staff wants rocket telemetry streamed and queried in actual time. Most evaluations are for brand spanking new tasks at corporations that already run incumbent methods, a lot of the work is making the case credible towards what they know: the structure, the numbers, and a plan their engineers imagine they will execute.

You work carefully with our CEO, who’s on the bottom in New York, and with the gross sales staff on each deal. You additionally work instantly with our CTO and core engineers on the product, so what you study within the subject goes straight into the roadmap. This is a hands-on individual-contributor function with numerous buyer time and numerous autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Run technical discovery with engineers, architects and quants: what knowledge they’ve, how a lot of it, how briskly it wants to maneuver, and what it runs on at this time.
• Design and run proofs of idea with written success standards and a timeline: construct the ingestion path, load consultant knowledge, design the schema, write the queries, and measure the outcomes.
• Own deployment and structure conversations: sizing, replication and excessive availability, backup and restoration, BYOC on AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, RBAC, TLS and SSO, storage tiering and Parquet queries.
• Deliver demos and technical deep dives that match the viewers, from a two-person quant staff to a financial institution’s structure overview board.
• Position QuestDB towards the incumbent time-series databases with precision: the place we win, the place we don’t, and what a migration actually entails.
• Answer safety questionnaires, RFIs and RFPs, and run vendor due-diligence classes with buyer safety and roads groups.
• Hand each closed deal over cleanly: what was constructed, how it’s configured, what was promised, and what’s nonetheless open, so help and engineering can run it from day one.
• Turn subject work into reusable property: reference architectures, benchmark stories, migration guides, pattern pipelines and demo datasets.
• Feed product gaps and buyer requests again to the CTO and core engineering with the proof connected.
• Represent QuestDB at meetups, conferences and buyer occasions in New York, Chicago and Toronto.

Requirements

• Has run or supported technical evaluations with enterprise patrons, and is aware of find out how to outline success standards and maintain a proof of idea to them.
• Experience in a hands-on function with databases, streaming or knowledge roads, as a pre-sales engineer, options engineer, knowledge engineer or software program engineer.
• Based in New York City, or on the US East Coast and capable of be with prospects in New York usually.
• Strong SQL and a stable understanding of database internals: storage structure, partitioning, indexing, question planning, and why columnar storage and vectorized execution matter for time collection.
• A exact communicator: explains trade-offs to a sceptical engineer, writes clearly, and says “I’ll test” reasonably than guessing.
• At ease in entrance of consumers, in individual and on calls, and capable of run a technical session alone.

Nice to have

• Hands-on expertise with columnar analytical databases.
• Capital-markets knowledge expertise: tick knowledge, order books, market-data feed handlers, backtesting or threat methods.
• Comfortable with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and a significant cloud (AWS or Azure).
• Writes working code in Python and certainly one of Java, C++, Rust or Go.
• The Python knowledge stack (pandas, Polars, Arrow, Parquet) and Grafana.
• Technical writing.

What we provide

• Generous fairness choices bundle
• Flexible working hours
• Freedom of alternative on your technical gear
• Wonderful, extremely certified colleagues
• Truly transnational: greater than 10 completely different nationalities
• A clear, collaborative and inclusive tradition
• Exciting alternatives for profession development as we develop
• High autonomy and belief, with minimal paperwork and a collaborative atmosphere