Senior Sales Engineer - Central & Eastern Europe (Polish Speaking, Ideally Based in Poland)
A Little About Us
EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com
EDB is looking for a Senior Sales Engineer to join our team of sales engineering professionals. As a Senior 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, pilots, technical workshops, technical account management etc. You will work close with Field & Insides Sales, Partners, Product Management & Engineering to be a conduit of technical requirements to & from EDB to our clients. It is anticipated most of the business will be in Central & Eastern European (CEE) region.
What your impact will be
This position will require interacting with customers/prospects/partners on a regular
basis, driving technical discussions to support sales in region.
Engage with existing customers and business partners, providing EDB technical
expertise to help clients solve business problems and grow the subscription and services
business.
Provide subject matter expertise to ensure planned sales targets are achieved.
Work with EDB professional services to build statement of work required in the
deployment of EDB solutions.
Assist clients and partners to build training and enablement plans
Provide single point of technical contact for partner engagements, liaising with local EDB
SE's to provide necessary tech support to opportunities
Provide EDB product management & engineering guidance on EDB product usage and
performance. Also provide product management competitive information
What you will bring
Ability to drive discussions and database related pain-points at CXO level and provide
guidance in order to drive them for more adoption of EDB Postgres. It would include
competing with native cloud databases or working with the cloud service providers etc.
Support key and strategic sales motions in this region, from a technical perspective
At least 4 to 5 years of direct experience (in the past 8-10 years) in Customer facing
skills, deliver technical product presentations, demonstrate technical products and their
feature sets
Ability to conduct product proof-of-concepts from initial requirements gathering to
successfully achieving objectives and success criteria through clear planning and
methodical execution
Hands-on experience in PostgreSQL or EDB Postgres databases or Oracle databases
along with concepts like High Availability, Upgrades/patching, Scalability, Performance,
Security.
Relational database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server). Active use
or, administration of such database(s)
Good understanding of NoSQL, unstructured data store concepts and familiarity with
MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra etc.
Good knowledge of SQL, and SQL query tuning & debugging techniques, DB server
tuning and debugging experience
Basic to intermediate Linux system administration experience along with software installation & software troubleshooting experience
Motivated Team player with on-site partner/channels ecosystem, customers and remote EDB Teams
Good communication skills in English language
Keen to travel and spend time in the field with customers, partners, System Integrators