PostgreSQL Sales Engineer

The world loves Postgres. If you work with developers or data scientists or anyone wrangling data, you’ll probably see a sticker with the tusks and trunk of the Postgres elephant on the lid of a nearby laptop. EDB has a lot to do with that.

We’ve been major contributors to Postgres since the beginning, and we are proud to call thousands of boundary pushing customers our partners. Proud though we are, we are not resting on our laurels. There’s plenty of work to do. The good news is that everything we do will impact Postgres, which is to say that it will impact the world. No pressure.

The Role

Due to our success and a significant addressable market, we are growing our local sales team by adding a Sales Engineer to be focused on the Korea market. Reporting to the Director of Sales Engineering APJ, you will be an important part of the sales team, demonstrating the value of our products and technology to potential customers and prospects.

As a Sales Engineer at EDB, you will be responsible for supporting the sales team in all technical aspects of the sales process including presentations, demos, proof of value, technical workshops, technical account management etc. You will work closely with Field & Insides Sales, Partners, Product Management & Engineering to be a conduit of technical requirements to & from EDB and our clients.

Qualifications

• Must have demonstrable hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
• 4+ years general relational database experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2). Active use or, administration of such database(s).
• Good knowledge of SQL, and SQL query tuning & debugging techniques
• DB server tuning and debugging experience
• Customer-facing experience either in a pre-sales, sales engineering, consulting, or support capacity
• Sales & commercial awareness
• Collaborative with internal teams and external stakeholders, with a solutions focus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate technical products and their feature sets
• Ability to author product feature blogs, create demo videos, and speak at conferences
• Basic to intermediate Linux system administration experience
• Software installation & software troubleshooting experience

Mandatory

• Experience with High Availability, Scalability, Performance trade-offs, Security & related concepts in relation to databases
• Cloud experience with one of these cloud providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare Cloud, and OpenStack

Preferred

• Ability to conduct product proof-of-value from initial requirements gathering to successfully achieving objectives and success criteria through clear planning and methodical execution
• Experience with Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, Microservices, PaaS (OpenShift, CloudFoundry)
• Knowledge of one of these programming languages: Java, Python, node js, ruby, C/C++ using database connectors (JDBC, python, node js, ODBC)

We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We’d love to hear from you and we want you to apply!

EDB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. EDB was built on a commitment to trust and respect each other and to embrace an array of people and ideas. These values remain at the center of our culture and are key to our company’s integrity.

Our US benefits package is listed here – additional benefits packages available upon request

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