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Onboarding Engineer - Presales

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Expertise in one or more technical areas including ANSI SQL, UNIX/Linux CLI, Data Warehouse concepts, Cloud Deployments, Big Data Technologies
  • Expertise with Kubernetes platforms like EKS, AKS, GKE, Openshift
  • Experience in customer-facing technical roles
  • Strong communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Assist in the execution of customer proof of concept studies
  • Act as a consultant on architecture, deployment, and design discussions
  • Consult with professional services on post-sales deployments and onboarding
  • Design and execute on strategic team projects and initiatives

Key facts

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Starburst

Computer Software / SaaS

Starburst is the analytics engine for the data mesh. We unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for data-driven organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the existing tools that work for their business. Trusted by companies like Comcast, FINRA, and CondΓ© Nast, Starburst helps companies make better decisions faster on all data. For more information: starburstdata.io Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

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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