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Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.
As a Sales Engineer at Astronomer, you’ll be a key partner to our clients, guiding them in deploying powerful data workflows to accelerate their business outcomes. You'll have the chance to work with cutting-edge technology, help customers solve complex data challenges, and influence our product’s evolution through client feedback. This role is ideal for someone who wants to make a visible impact while growing into an expert in workflow orchestration and Apache Airflow.
Solve Real-World Problems: Design and implement proof-of-concept solutions that help customers tackle real data challenges, from concept to production.
Be a Trusted Advisor: Conduct demos and provide technical guidance to engineering teams, showing them how our platform can transform their workflows.
Drive Community Impact: Contribute to the Apache Airflow community by creating technical content and best practices, positioning Astronomer as a thought leader in workflow orchestration.
Influence Product Direction: Act as a liaison by gathering field insights and providing critical feedback to the Product team to shape the future of our platform.
Develop and Grow: Become an expert in Airflow, workflow orchestration, and the data engineering landscape as you collaborate across departments and work on impactful projects.
Data Engineering Know-How: Familiarity with core data engineering concepts including orchestration, ELT, Git, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), with hands-on experience or working knowledge of Apache Airflow in a customer environment.
Experience and Expertise: 2+ years in a Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Consulting or similar role within the data space, ideally with experience in modern data tools like Snowflake, Databricks, Fivetran, or Tableau.
Effective Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Curiosity and Customer Empathy: A genuine desire to understand customer needs, patience, and empathy to support them through challenges.
Drive to Innovate: Eagerness to learn and experiment with new technical concepts, tools, and approaches to stay ahead in the data industry.
Hands-on Python scripting skills for data pipeline support.
Experience with open-source data tools.
Background in designing data workflows in a production environment.
Customer-facing experience in a technical or consultative role.
Experience working with Command Line Interfaces (CLI).
The estimated total compensation for this role ranges from $200,000 - $250,000, along with an equity component. This range is merely an estimate, and the width of the range reflects willingness to consider candidates with broad prior seniority. Actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.
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Astronomer is a data engineering platform that collects, processes and unifies your enterprise data, so you can get straight to analytics, data science and-more importantly-insights. Basically, Astronomer makes it easy to capture data from any source and send it to any location to tee up your organization for insights. Maybe you need to start by seeing all your data in one place. Maybe you're ready to test out predictive analytics or run artificial intelligence. With access to the right insights, every company has the opportunity to do business best. Founded in 2015, we've created a hybrid integration platform that supports cloud and on-premises requirements simultaneously and runs all variations of enterprise ETL workloads. In other words, a unified approach to an integrated landscape, offering both custom and packaged solutions, while leaving total ownership and control of data in your hands. Our Cincinnati-based team comes from a diverse mix of multidisciplinary backgrounds including EY, Oracle, Facebook, the FBI and Dunnhumby and is backed by notable venture investors including 500 Startups, Angelpad and CincyTech. We pride ourselves on the company we keep-and our team members, regardless of their role, are on a mission to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
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