At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data
problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind
the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and
Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data.
From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs,
our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the
promise that good things come from connecting the dots. The Elastic
family unites employees across 32 countries into one coherent team,
while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.
We're scaling our Sales Engineering team and looking for great people to
be technical liaisons for our Sales team. You will be helping us knock
down the technical barriers to adoption of the Elastic stack and
presenting our technology to help solve customers' mission critical
business issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with the Elastic Sales team in preparing
and presenting the Elastic products while addressing any technical
questions or concerns that come up during the sales cycle.
- Leverage
your deep understanding of the Elastic products and technology to work
closely with Engineering and Sales to resolve critical technical issues
- Provide customer and market feedback to the Product and Engineering teams and influence product direction
- Travel to prospective clients and build trust as a technical interface for them
- Continuously
learn about competitive, complementary and emerging technologies and
provide expertise positioning Elastic in this context
Requirements
- 2+ Years as a Sales Engineer
- Understanding of Open Source Big Data Technologies and knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language
- Knowledge and deep understanding of distributed systems architectures
- Great presentation skills with the ability to speak in front of audiences both large and small
- Knowledge of Information Retrieval and/or Analytics domain
- Ability to travel at least 40% of the time
- Understanding of Linux, Java, and databases
Additional Information
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Equity
- Catered lunches, snacks and beverages in most offices
- An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
- Passionate people building great products
- Employees with a wide variety of interests
- Distributed-first company with employees in over 30 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages!
Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles
of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all
applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin,
age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or
any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or
regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled
employees consistent with applicable law.