Nextdata

Nextdata

Senior Sales Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 344 days ago
PythonSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringMLOpsSalesLeadershipPublic Speaking

About the role

  • This role is perfect for someone who thrives in early-stage environments, combines deep technical knowledge with consultative sales acumen, and can tailor complex data architecture solutions to each customer's unique needs.
  • As our first dedicated Sales Engineer, you'll work closely with the Head of Revenue and CEO to shape how we engage with prospects.
  • This role is remote but limited to candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discovery calls and understand customer architecture, pain points, and success criteria
  • Build and manage demo environments that simulate real-world data scenarios
  • Own and deliver PoCs, partnering with prospects to prototype integrations and data product workflows
  • Create technical sales collateral, including diagrams, solution briefs, and architecture overviews
  • Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering to inform roadmap and improve technical GTM assets
  • Ability to build PoCs quickly, with an eye for product impact and usability

Requirements

  • 7+ years in technical roles (Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Data Engineer)
  • 3+ years of customer-facing experience selling to enterprise data teams
  • Proficiency with Python, SQL, Spark, and familiarity with GenAI tooling and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Familiarity with Data Mesh, data product thinking, and distributed data architectures
  • Exceptional presentation skills: you can command a room, simplify the complex, and adapt to your audience

Skills

  • Strong customer empathy and consultative selling approach-comfortable digging into architecture and business context
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a bias toward action
  • Experience at a high-growth startup or scaling a technical sales motion from the ground up
  • Experience with AI/ML platforms, MLOps, DataOps or developer platforms
  • Cloud and data engineering certifications
  • Public speaking or thought leadership experience in data infrastructure or architecture
  • you can command a room, simplify the complex, and adapt to your audience
  • The future of data is autonomous.
  • Nextdata OS makes it real.

This listing is sourced directly from Nextdata's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.