Pre-Sales Engineer, North America
About the role
QuestDB is a low-latency time-series database. The role is a hands-on pre-sales engineer for North America, owning the technical validation and engagement across the sales cycle, including discovery, proofs of concept, architecture discussions, security reviews, and post-sale handover.
Responsibilities
- Run technical discovery with engineers, architects and quants: what data they have, how much of it, how fast it needs to move, and what it runs on today.
- Design and run proofs of concept with written success criteria and a timeline: build the ingestion path, load representative data, design the schema, write the queries, and measure the results.
- Own deployment and architecture conversations: sizing, replication and high availability, backup and recovery, BYOC on AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, RBAC, TLS and SSO, storage tiering and Parquet queries.
- Deliver demos and technical deep dives that fit the audience, from a two-person quant team to a bank's architecture review board.
- Position QuestDB against the incumbent time-series databases with precision: where we win, where we do not, and what a migration really involves.
- Answer security questionnaires, RFIs and RFPs, and run vendor due-diligence sessions with customer security and infrastructure teams.
- Hand every closed deal over cleanly: what was built, how it is configured, what was promised, and what is still open, so support and engineering can run it from day one.
- Turn field work into reusable assets: reference architectures, benchmark reports, migration guides, sample pipelines and demo datasets.
- Feed product gaps and customer requests back to the CTO and core engineering with the evidence attached.
- Represent QuestDB at meetups, conferences and customer events in New York, Chicago and Toronto.
Qualifications
- Has run or supported technical evaluations with enterprise buyers, and knows how to define success criteria and hold a proof of concept to them.
- Experience in a hands-on role with databases, streaming or data infrastructure, as a pre-sales engineer, solutions engineer, data engineer or software engineer.
- Based in New York City, or on the US East Coast and able to be with customers in New York regularly.
- Strong SQL and a solid understanding of database internals: storage layout, partitioning, indexing, query planning, and why columnar storage and vectorized execution matter for time series.
- A precise communicator: explains trade-offs to a sceptical engineer, writes clearly, and says "I will check" rather than guessing.
- At ease in front of customers, in person and on calls, and able to run a technical session alone.
Skills
Benefits
- Generous equity options package
- Flexible working hours
- Freedom of choice for your technical equipment
- Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues
- Truly international: more than 10 different nationalities
- A transparent, collaborative and inclusive culture
- Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow
- High autonomy and trust, with minimal bureaucracy and a collaborative environment
About QuestDB
The fastest open source time series database
QuestDB is a high-performance, open-source database for time series data. It focuses on fast ingest, blazingly fast queries and superior developer experience with SQL and open formats. QuestDB is designed from the ground up to operate as close to the hardware as possible -- eliminating ingestion bottlenecks and lowering overall hardware requirements. QuestDB powers the infrastructure for companies in Financial Services, Crypto/Web3, Space Exploration, and Energy/Renewables.
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