Sales Engineer - West

Atlan; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm seeks a passionate Strategic Sales Engineer to join their rapidly growing team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your extensive experience in data technology to help clients navigate their data challenges. You'll engage with key stakeholders, from CDOs to data engineers, ensuring they have the insights needed to integrate cutting-edge solutions into their workflows. This position is perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment and wants to make a significant impact in the data community. Join us in revolutionizing how data teams collaborate and succeed!

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer or in customer-facing data roles.
• Proficient in SQL and RestAPI; programming skills in Python, Java, or Go preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and understand their data problems.
• Act as a trusted advisor for data teams and help them adopt modern data platforms.

Skills

Sales Engineering

Technical Data Practitioner

SQL

RestAPI

Programming (Python, Java, Go)

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a Relevant Field

Job description

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Talent Partner at Atlan - Building a dream Field Engineering team globally

Role: Strategic Sales Engineer - West/Central

Hello, we are Atlan!

Atlan is the home for data teams worldwide, simplifying collaboration for diverse users—business, product, analysts, and engineers. Think of us as Salesforce for sales or GitHub for engineers.

Built by Data Teams, for Data Teams

We started as a data team solving complex challenges in healthcare and poverty. After 200+ projects, we faced the chaos of scaling data teams, leading us to build tools to make our own team more agile. This enabled us to complete projects like India’s National Data Platform—three years ahead of schedule. Realizing our tools could help others, Atlan was born to empower data teams globally.

We’ve onboarded customers like HubSpot, Dropbox, and Nasdaq, expanded across 10+ countries, and is the leader in The Forrester Wave for Enterprise Data Catalogs.

Backed by top investors, including Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia, we’re just getting started.

We Build with ❤️

We believe data teams deserve better software. Data is chaotic, but work shouldn’t be!

If you love what Superhuman, Slack, Notion, and Figma have done for the modern workplace, join us in building the future for data teams at Atlan!

Why is this role important for us?

• We started as a data team ourselves, and we want to be the kind of partner that we would have liked to have ourselves! This principle guides all our values and business decisions. For example, we are open by default — built on open APIs, fully open architecture, publicly available documentation, no lock-ins, etc.
• We fundamentally believe that the most important role of our sales and go-to-market team is to help customers solve problems and play the role of a trusted advisor. Sometimes this might mean turning customers away and even recommending other solutions. Even if we lose some revenue in the short term by doing so, we believe that doing right by the customer is always the right thing to do.
• Our GTM team has been growing rapidly to meet customer demand and we’re looking for talented Sales Engineers to help build and mature our sales engineering function.
• We're looking for someone who's passionate about solving problems, loves all things data, and is looking for a high-impact role in a high-growth startup.
• You will build strong relationships with stakeholders inside the organizations, from CDOs and Data Platform leaders on one hand to data engineers and analysts on the other. Your goal will be to understand the problems they're aiming to solve.
• You will be the trusted advisor for data teams on their journey to building a modern data platform. You'll evangelize Atlan and the broader principles of an agile data culture to the broader data community.
• You'll do whatever it takes to arm customers with all the information they need to make a decision about bringing on Atlan as a part of their daily workflows — from setting up customized demo flows to running trials and POCs, office hours, and more.
• You will be our eyes and ears on the ground, constantly hearing customer feedback and working closely with our product team to incorporate feedback into the product roadmap.

What makes you a match for us?

• Data background: Prior experience as a Sales Engineer, or Technical Data Practitioner in customer-facing roles (minimum 7 years).
• Industry: Prior experience working with data technology.
• Technical expertise: You are proficient in SQL and RestAPI's and can ideally programme in Python, Java, Go or another language.
• Strategic accounts: You will need experience with Enterprise/Fortune 500 customers, dealing with complex sales cycles and multi stakeholder deals.
• Problem solving: You love to nerd out on technical problems and find creative, out of the box solutions to customer problems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: You're excited about the opportunity to build a company from the ground up.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Technology, Information and Media