Sales Engineer

Altinity Sales Engineer

We are looking to hire an outstanding database expert who is customer-focused, and result-driven for a Sales Engineer role. You will be helping some of the smartest teams on the planet build innovative real-time analytics applications based on ClickHouse. You must be able to interact as an equal as you evangelize Altinity technology based on Altinity.

Cloud and open-source ClickHouse, onboard new customers, and set them on the path for successful deployment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical discovery calls, assess existing systems, and offer design guidance for developing efficient, high-performance analytical applications based on ClickHouse and Altinity.

• Cloud

• Support sales team during the customer trial process: demos, proofs-of-concept, and solution prototyping including table design, data ingestion, and query optimization on ClickHouse databases

• Manage technical facets on-boarding new Altinity.

• Cloud and Enterprise Support customers, including engagement of support engineers for long-term technical account management

• Accelerate customer deployments by solving technical issues on the spot wherever possible and quickly bringing in support & engineering to solve the rest

• Manage communications between the customer and various internal Altinity Teams

• Manage and prioritize multiple, parallel sales engagements with touch points in Engineering, Support, and Sales Administration

• Engage new and existing accounts to identify and build relationships with decision makers

• Prioritize customer needs and coordinate with support, product, and engineering teams to help customers be successful with ClickHouse and our Managed Database offering (Altinity.

• Cloud)

• Create technical documentation for DevOps, implementations, and services engagements

Requirements

• Experience with ClickHouse is a MUST!
• 5+ years experience in database engineer / systems architect / sales engineer roles on real-time analytics and decision support systems
• Deep background in database technology and application architectures, with ClickHouse strongly preferred
• Ability to operate effectively at code level and guide others in SQL table design, database performance optimization, real-time event stream configuration, and API/UI design patterns
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and hands-on experience with application deployment in cloud environments
• Direct experience with system administration and devops tools for application deployment
• Successful customer-facing technical sales experience, including ability to work with customers with minimal supervision
• Outstanding communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions with product managers, engineers, and executives
• Experience in managing B2B relations with a track record of steadily increasing responsibility in sales or customer growth
• Able to travel for business when necessary, focusing on North America (visa/US citizenship required)
• Demonstrated ability to absorb new technologies quickly
• Experience with agentic development tools like Claude Code is a major plus

Our Benefits:

• Work from Anywhere, Anytime: We are not your typical nine-to-five shop! Enjoy the flexibility of working from literally wherever and whenever. Create a schedule that works for you and your family or lifestyle. Recharge your batteries with our open vacation policies.
• Cultural Diversity: We love that we get to work with passionate people from around the world. Currently, our team is made of professionals from 24 different countries!
• Career Development: We provide opportunities to learn new technologies as well as try out new roles. We also offer access to training on leading-edge technologies, plus flexible work schedules for external education.
• USA Employees

Benefits

• We offer comprehensive PPO health care plans for our US-based employees that are incredibly flexible to meet the needs of individuals or families. 401K with company match also available.

• Company Travel: We come together in person two to three times per year in locations across the globe.

• We also fund travel to conferences and encourage presentations as well as contributions to open-source communities.

• This is a full-time position and includes equity in the company. Altinity is venture-funded and financially stable.

• We are 100% remote. You may work anywhere you have work permits, though we prefer candidates from North America.

• Check out our many other benefits, including flexible work hours, career development, and open vacation policies.