Pre-Sales Engineer, Time-Series DB - Equity + Flexible Hours

Matcha; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity options package

Flexible working hours

Freedom to choose technical equipment

internationally diverse team

Career progression opportunities

High autonomy and minimal bureaucracy

Job summary

QuestDB is hiring a pre-sales engineer for North America to own the technical side of every sales cycle. You’ll conduct discovery, run PoCs, and lead deployment discussions including replication, HA, and security reviews.

Based on the US East Coast or NYC region, you will engage with CEOs and CTOs, work with sales, and translate field learnings into roadmap input while maintaining strong customer relationships and deep technical credibility.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and a solid understanding of database internals: storage layout, partitioning, indexing, query planning.
• Experience in a hands-on role with databases, streaming or data infrastructure.
• Based in New York City or US East Coast and able to be with customers in New York regularly.
• Has run or supported technical evaluations with enterprise buyers and defines success criteria.
• Precise communicator who explains trade-offs to engineers and writes clearly.

Responsibilities

• Run technical discovery with engineers, architects and quants to assess data needs and performance.
• Design and run proofs of concept with clear success criteria and timelines.
• Own deployment conversations: sizing, replication, HA, backups, BYOC on AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, TLS and SSO.
• Deliver demos and deep dives for varying audiences, from small teams to architecture review boards.
• Position against incumbents with clear migration implications and value propositions.
• Answer security questionnaires and vendor due-diligence sessions with customer teams.
• Hand closed deals over with documented configurations and promised outcomes for support.
• Turn field work into reusable assets like reference architectures and migration guides.
• Provide product feedback with evidence to the CTO and core engineers.
• Represent QuestDB at meetups and conferences in North America.

Skills

SQL

Database internals

Customer facing

Communication

Python

Java/C++/Rust/Go

Tools

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Pandas/Polars

Job description

QuestDB is hiring a pre-sales engineer for North America to own the technical side of every sales cycle. You’ll conduct discovery, run PoCs, and lead deployment discussions including replication, HA, and security reviews.

Based on the US East Coast or NYC region, you will engage with CEOs and CTOs, work with sales, and translate field learnings into roadmap input while maintaining strong customer relationships and deep technical credibility.