Sales Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150000 - 175000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Angott Search Group has partnered with a fast-growing provider of enterprise-scale data management and migration technologies to find a Senior/Founding Solutions Engineer. This company is scaling rapidly in North America and looking for a results-oriented sales leader to spearhead growth across major enterprise accounts.
This is a hands-on customer-facing engineering role ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of architecture performance tuning and enterprise-scale data movement. Youll work directly with IT infrastructure teams cloud architects and system administrators to design and validate high-performance solutions across data storage backup and migration environments.
The company is a European enterprise software leader rapidly expanding across North America with strong traction in high-performance computing (HPC) life sciences media and government sectors.
Why This Role Matters
Youll be a key technical contributor in the companys U.S. expansion serving as the bridge between enterprise customers sales and engineering. Your work will directly influence multimillion-dollar data management initiatives and ensure customers achieve scalable secure and high-performing outcomes.
This position is ideal for an engineer whos more comfortable in a terminal than in a slideshow someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves testing real-world performance and shaping architectures that move petabytes of unstructured data efficiently and reliably.
What Youll Do
- Collaborate with Sales and Partner teams to develop and deliver technical solutions for enterprise clients.
- Lead discovery sessions to assess existing infrastructure data flow bottlenecks and migration workflows.
- Design implement and validate proofs of concept (POCs) that demonstrate product capabilities in customer environments.
- Build scalable architectures integrating on-prem and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) with enterprise storage systems.
- Troubleshoot performance and throughput issues across large-scale multi-petabyte environments.
- Partner with Engineering and Product Management to relay customer feedback and influence roadmap direction.
- Support seamless handoff from pre-sales to post-deployment teams ensuring technical continuity and customer success.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders partners and internal teams.
What You Bring
- 710 years of combined experience in enterprise storage data protection backup or cloud infrastructure.
- Proven ability to design and validate large-scale backup archive and migration solutions.
- Solid knowledge of Linux and Windows environments including file system and NAS protocols (NFS SMB/CIFS).
- Experience troubleshooting complex data-movement or performance issues in real-world infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills capable of simplifying technical complexity for diverse audiences.
- A self-directed analytical mindset with a passion for experimentation and elegant system design.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre GPFS StorNext).
- Background in HPC Media & Entertainment Life Sciences or Research workloads.
- Prior experience working with system integrators OEMs or channel partners.
- Familiarity with data transfer tools or tuning (e.g. Rsync Robocopy).
What Success Looks Like
- You become the technical cornerstone of the U.S. go-to-market team.
- You consistently lead and win complex enterprise POCs.
- You help close high-value multi-site enterprise deals.
- Youre recognized internally and externally as a subject-matter expert in data movement and protection.
- You help shape product evolution through real-world customer insight.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: $150000 $175000
- On-Target Earnings (OTE): $175000 $210000
- Annual performance bonus
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
- Professional development allowance
- Opportunities for both domestic and international travel
Ideal Candidate Profile
Youre an engineer at heart curious methodical and precise. You take pride in designing robust scalable systems and have a knack for uncovering performance bottlenecks others might miss. Youre also commercially aware: you understand how technical architecture connects to business outcomes and can partner effectively with account teams to deliver value-driven solutions.
Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- Presentation Skills
- OEM
- SAAS
- Computer Networking
- Product Demos
- Salesforce
- CRM Software
- Enterprise Sales
- Pre-sales
- MPLS
- Sales Support
About Company
Angott Search Group is a national executive search firm specializing in recruiting experienced professionals for financial, automotive, energy and legal roles and more.
