prefect - Senior Sales Engineer
Requirements
• Five things. If you have these, apply, even if the nice-to-haves are thin. • 1. 3+ years of engineering experience, building real solutions. Data engineering, DevOps, software engineering, data science: the discipline matters less than the fact that you've built something programmatically and shipped it. Python is our house language. • 2. 2+ years in a customer facing role. Deep discovery skills and the habit of uncovering the real problem before proposing anything is key. You ask the second and third question, and you notice what the customer isn't saying. • 3. Curiosity first, then creativity. You take things apart to see how they work, and you don't stop at the docs. Then you put the pieces together in ways nobody handed you: a new use case, a demo that didn't exist yesterday, a workaround the customer didn't know was possible. • 4. You explain hard things clearly to engineers. What's required is that a senior platform engineer finishes a call with you and trusts you. • 2+ years of prior sales engineering experience. • 2+ years of Enterprise infrastructure depth. In at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), and comfort with Kubernetes, networking, IAM, service mesh, and a production database like Postgres. • Orchestration tooling as a user, builder, or seller: Prefect, Dagster, Airflow, Temporal, Step Functions, etc. • Fascinated by AI and tinkering with MCP, agents, or LLM applications. • WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN: • San Francisco Bay Area & NYC Metro: $252,000–$301,000 (OTE) • Washington D.C., Boston, LA Metro, Seattle: $241,000–$280,000 (OTE) • Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, & all other U.S. metros: $233,000–$279,000 (OTE) • Actual base salary within each range depends on the candidate's location, experience, and qualifications. Equity and benefits are not included in the range above. Your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
• Own the technical side of enterprise deals. From discovery through close: advising prospects, presenting and demonstrating the value of our platforms from a technical perspective. • Distill the use case. Most prospects don't arrive with a clean requirement. They arrive with a data platform, a pile of tools, a team of engineers and users expecting answers, and a budget. You figure out how our products fit together to solve for their use case, then help them validate the approach. • Sell across the platform. A single conversation can span Prefect, Dagster, FastMCP, hybrid architecture, and AI governance, often with a team that knows where it wants to end up but not how to get there. • Turn field signal into product direction. Sales engineers are the closest thing to a market pulse this company has. You'll carry what you hear into our GTM-engineering partnership channels, with evidence, and push when it matters. • Build the things we sell with. Demo environments, architecture diagrams, competitive battlecards, contributions to our internal repos, personal projects, and the occasional blog post. • Contribute and advocate for your ideas. Champion the culture, and keep projects from quietly failing. When something is going sideways, you say so early and you help fix it.
Benefits
• Remote-first team with flexible-first culture • Equity Stock Options • 401(k) with 5% company match (vests immediately!) • Unlimited PTO • Medical, Dental and Vision insurance • Generous Parental Leave • Life Insurance and Disability benefits • $800/month remote work stipend • And that's just the start — for more info check out our benefits and perks on our careers page. • BELONGINGNESS AT PREFECT: • Belongingness at Prefect is our commitment to ensuring mutual power, access, and opportunity among all groups and individuals who make up our community. We operationalize belongingness through actions large and small on a daily basis, but always with the goal that all groups and individuals can contribute as their most authentic self to the evolution of our product, our team, and our community. • Belongingness is also our commitment to bridge with individuals or groups not yet established in our community, acknowledge differences in a way that affirms distinct identities, and allows for a new, more expansive group identity to form. • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT PREFECT:
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