Senior Staff Sales Engineer - France

What you build and where it takes you should be unrestricted by the capabilities of your database. We created CockroachDB as the planet's most highly evolved, cloud-native, distributed SQL database. Making scale so simple you don't even have to think about it. Making data so resilient it becomes impossible to destroy. Making delivery so seamless, your apps run anywhere. Join us on our mission to build a different breed of database—one born in the cloud and built from the ground up to help companies of any size scale fast, survive disaster, and thrive everywhere.About the RoleWe are looking to grow our rapidly expanding sales engineering team. As a Sales Engineer, you will help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations. To be eligible for this role, you must be based in Germany and you will be covering the DACH region.You WillWork alongside the sales team to introduce CockroachDB to our potential customers. As a trusted advisor, you will help educate prospects on the unique capabilities of CockroachDB and design solutions to meet a wide variety of challenges.Lead product and solution briefings, build proof-of-concepts (POC), run live product demos, and prototype CockroachDB integrations.Partner with Cockroach Labs product management, engineering and support teams to solve customer challenges and improve CockroachDB.Identify and address customers' key technical objections and develop the engineering strategies to resolve those blockers to adoption.The ExpectationsIn your first 30 days, you will immerse yourself in CockroachDB and our sales motion. We believe that it's important for you to take this first month to become familiar with our company, technology and message.During this time you will be an active listener on customer calls and build relationships with various teams at Cockroach Labs. As you gain confidence in the message and technology, you will be called upon to lead meetings with support from the team.After 3 months, you should be ready to lead customer meetings without support and conduct POCs. You should be working closely with Account Managers in your territory to build regional go-to-market strategies and account plans for key prospects.You Have9-12+ years of experience in a sales engineering or similar role.Prior experience collecting requirements, developing solution architectures, leading presentations and teaching prospective users or project teams how to use CockroachDB.Developed software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems in the past and want to stay close to the code.A passion for working on complex technical problems and have a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and database technologies.A strong ability to build relationships with our partners, customers, and open-source users.A collaborative spirit and enjoy making sure that each team gets customer feedback to keep improving CockroachDB.The flexibility to travel to meet customers, attend events or conferences or wherever the work takes you.Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at [email protected] Labs has an office-first approach, with Roachers coming into one of our offices on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and working flexibly the rest of the week. While we’ve learned valuable lessons working remotely, nothing can replace the connection, creativity, and fun that occurs when Roachers get together and we are committed to fostering a workplace that encourages collaboration and allows us all to do our best work.Please note: Remote-based designations are exclusively reserved for in-region required roles in Field Sales, Sales Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis on rare occasions for niche and/or expert roles at the executive team’s discretion. #J-18808-Ljbffr