Join Starburst as a Presales Onboarding Engineer to drive customer success and technical leadership in a fast-paced startup environment.
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In the role of Presales Onboarding Engineer at Starburst, the individual will engage directly with customers to facilitate the deployment and configuration of the company's data solutions during evaluations. This position requires expertise in areas such as ANSI SQL, cloud deployments, and big data technologies, along with strong communication skills for effective customer interaction. Ideal candidates will have a background in customer-facing technical roles and a desire to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. Starburst emphasizes collaboration across teams, making this role integral to both customer success and internal project initiatives.
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- Listed 5 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Starburst's career page.
- Starburst has 19 other open roles including Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane, Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Sr Director, Pipeline Strategy & Analytics.
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Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AKS, ANSI SQL, Data Warehouse, EKS, GKE, Hadoop.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Starburst targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Onboarding Engineer - Presales role at Starburst.
From the original posting
About Starburst
Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai.
About the role
As a presales onboarding engineer, you will be a member of the global strategic team in a highly cross functional role working in a customer facing capacity during evaluations and on strategic team projects and initiatives. You will have the exciting opportunity to build our customer base while working with the presales, sales, professional services teams. You will be responsible for the successful deployment and configuration of the product as part of validation testing. In this customer-facing and highly technical role, you will work directly with our customers to ensure their success with Starburst’s product offering. You will partner with field sales and technical presales representatives to technically troubleshoot deployments and ensure the successful completion of winning the technical aspects of the campaign. Responsibilities include working with customers running proofs of value, providing guidance for migration from legacy platforms, assistance with customers moving to production execution of strategic team projects. Onboarding engineers are Starburst experts who will provide technical leadership and project consultation.
As a Presales Onboarding Engineer at Starburst you will:
- Assist in the execution of customer proof of concept studies
- Be an expert in our products and services
- Act as a consultant and expert on architecture, deployment, and design discussions
- Consult with professional services on post sales deployments and onboarding
- Act as a customer-facing technical resource during technology evaluations
- Provide product feedback for internal product engineering discussions
- Design and execute on strategic team projects and initiatives
- Collaborate with Engineering and Support teams for critical customer operational issues and questions
- Develop field best practices, how-to documents, and contribute to our internal knowledge base
Some of the things we look for:
- Expertise or Experience in one or more of the following technical areas: Analytical and problem-solving skills, ANSI SQL, UNIX/Linux CLI interactions, Data Warehouse usage and concepts, Private/Public Cloud Deployments, Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, distributed systems and storage
- Expertise with kubernetes platforms like EKS,AKS, GKE and Openshift.
- Experience in customer-facing technical roles
- Prior experience with trino or presto is desirable
- Strong communication skills and an ability to respond dynamically to questions in real-time
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment with cutting-edge technologies
Build your career at Starburst
All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.
Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.
We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.
Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state
or local laws.
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