About QuestDB
QuestDB is the low-latency time-series repository on open formats. It ingests millions of events per second, computes on live data in milliseconds, and keeps years of former queryable: one SQL motor spanning messaging, stream handling and tiered storage, so teams can act on what is happening and study from everything that happened.
The motor is written in low-latency Java (zero-GC), Rust, C++ and assembly: columnar storage, vectorized and JIT-compiled SQL, streaming materialized views, and an open lakehouse tier on Parquet and Iceberg. QuestDB Enterprise turns a sole server into a completely distributed deployment alongside a multi-tiered lakehouse architecture, prepared for mission-critical workloads on the crucial path.
Our open-source repository has passed 17k GitHub stars and we're the fastest-growing repository in our category. QuestDB runs in manufacturing at tier-1 banks, exchanges, selling firms, hedge funds, crypto platforms and energy operators throughout four continents, and is expanding into robotics, aerospace and Physical AI. We lately won Best Trading Analytics Platform at the TradingTech Summit Europe, the archetypal non-legacy vendor to do so.
Working at QuestDB
We employ gifted and passionate group who portion our goal to empower developers to resolve their problems alongside data. We are construction breakthrough innovation to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.
- Work alongside world-class engineers, including two teammates who placed in the top 10 of the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC).
- We allocate in a civilization that promotes ownership, autonomy and autonomous thinking.
- We have transparent guidance and value employees' strategic input.
- Our squad is aspiring and tackles the most difficult problems at the deepest data infrastructure layer.
The role
We're hiring a pre-sales engineer for North America to own the specialized flank of all revenue sequence in the region.
You own the specialized validation that happens before a agreement is signed: discovery, a time-boxed evidence of idea alongside achievement criteria accepted up front, benchmarks run on the customer's own data that their engineers can reproduce, architecture sign-off and safety review, through to the archetypal manufacturing workload. You are the engineer in the area whenever a bank's phase squad asks how replication and failover really work, or whenever an aerospace squad needs missile telemetry streamed and queried in genuine time. Most evaluations are for new projects at firms that already run incumbent systems, so much of the activity is making the case dependable against what they know: the architecture, the numbers, and a scheme their engineers accept they can execute.
You activity closely alongside our CEO, who is on the dirt in New York, and alongside the revenue squad on all deal. You additionally activity immediately alongside our CTO and center engineers on the product, so what you study in the site goes direct into the roadmap. This is a hands-on individual-contributor function alongside a lot of client period and a lot of autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Run specialized finding alongside engineers, architects and quants: what data they have, how much of it, how accelerated it needs to move, and what it runs on today.
- Design and run proofs of idea alongside written achievement criteria and a timeline: build the ingestion path, burden delegate data, scheme the schema, compose the queries, and measure the results.
- Own deployment and architecture conversations: sizing, replication and elevated availability, backup and recovery, BYOC on AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, RBAC, TLS and SSO, retention tiering and Parquet queries.
- Deliver demos and specialized profound dives that fit the audience, from a two-person quant squad to a bank's architecture assessment board.
- Position QuestDB against the incumbent time-series databases alongside precision: anywhere we win, anywhere we do not, and what a immigration really involves.
- Answer safety questionnaires, RFIs and RFPs, and run vendor due-diligence sessions alongside client safety and infrastructure teams.
- Hand all closed agreement complete cleanly: what was built, how it is configured, what was promised, and what is motionless open, so assistance and engineering can run it from day one.
- Turn site activity into reusable assets: citation architectures, benchmark reports, immigration guides, example pipelines and demo datasets.
- Feed merchandise gaps and client requests rear to the CTO and center engineering alongside the evidence attached.
- Represent QuestDB at meetups, conferences and client events in New York, Chicago and Toronto.
Requirements
- Has run or supported specialized evaluations alongside endeavor buyers, and knows how to define achievement criteria and clasp a evidence of idea to them.
- Experience in a hands-on function alongside databases, streaming or data infrastructure, as a pre-sales engineer, solutions engineer, data engineer or application engineer.
- Based in New York City, or on the US East Coast and capable to be alongside customers in New York regularly.
- Strong SQL and a firm understanding of repository internals: retention layout, partitioning, indexing, query planning, and why columnar retention and vectorized implementation matter for period series.
- A exact communicator: explains trade-offs to a sceptical engineer, writes clearly, and says "I volition check" fairly than guessing.
- At comfort in forefront of customers, in individual and on calls, and capable to run a specialized meeting alone.
Nice to have
- Hands-on cognition alongside columnar analytical databases.
- Capital-markets data experience: tick data, command books, market-data nourish handlers, backtesting or hazard systems.
- Comfortable alongside Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and a important haze (AWS or Azure).
- Writes operating code in Python and one of Java, C++, Rust or Go.
- The Python data stack (pandas, Polars, Arrow, Parquet) and Grafana.
- Technical writing.
What we offer
- Generous equity options package
- Flexible operating hours
- Freedom of choice for your specialized equipment
- Wonderful, extremely qualified colleagues
- Truly international: additional than 10 distinct nationalities
- A transparent, collaborative and inclusive culture
- Exciting opportunities for occupation progression as we grow
- High autonomy and trust, alongside minimal bureaucracy and a collaborative environment
