Position: Sales engineer
Location: San Francisco, Ca

Company:
Clustrix, Inc. is a stealth mode start-up based in San Francisco, Ca  solving infrastructure scalability challenges facing today’s high-growth web companies, enterprises and cloud service providers. The company is well funded by top-tier venture firms including Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners and ATA Ventures. The innovative and collaborative team is highly seasoned with a track record of developing successful customer solutions and recent history of delivering dramatic IPO returns to employees and shareholders.

Corporate Systems Sales Engineer (strong storage exp/ strong selling skills)

Responsibilities:

Identify, develop, and close business opportunities with high client satisfaction.
Deliver product overview and technical presentations to customers at a whiteboard, by phone, or via a web conference.
Work closely with customers to understand and resolve their technical challenges, build technical rapport, and assume role of trusted advisor.
Demonstrate your domain knowledge by suggesting/designing solutions for challenges customers face in scaling their infrastructure.
Identify new opportunities within the client environment beyond the initial sale.
Identify, filter, prioritize, track and communicate customer issues to resolution.
Create and evolve product demonstrations that highlight product value and benefits.
Provide product requirement feedback into marketing and engineering functions.
Provide leadership in the development and execution of pre- and post-sales support processes and training.

Qualifications:

Deep domain expertise in enterprise or web data center environments for database, storage, virtualization, or server technologies.
5+ years in technical selling/Systems Engineer role doing installation, configuration, performance tuning, backup/restore and application development.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or other technical discipline.
Strong presentation, written communication and selling skills.
Possess key interpersonal skills including: cross-functional leadership, ability to operate independently, results-driven and clear customer orientation.

Desirable:

Domain expertise in large web-scale infrastructure, including the LAMP stack.
Proficient in SQL (programming, architecture, concepts) and hands-on administration of relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
Database scaling or application integration using sharding and partitioning methods.
Programming or scripting experience in C++, Python, Perl and Shell.
Familiarity with Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian) or VMware.
Experience selling appliance solutions in start-up environments.

Contact:
Clustrix is a well funded by top VC firms.  We have an experienced management team that has been successful with other startups.  We offer challenge, growth, to high caliber technical professionals. Please send your information to
herbnj AT gmail DOT com