Job Description:

We have Sales Engineer openings in Chicago, KC, Minneapolis and St. Louis.

We are currently seeking Sales Engineers to join our team. In this position you will be the technical representative for Cloudera's products and services in the Enterprise Field Sales organization.

This is a hands-on technologist role, you are not just doing slideware, youcrafting enterprise data solutions for large organizations.

Experience seeing the entire lifecycle from conception to design to technology evaluation to pilot program to implementation to maintenance and support is crucial.

Database, distributed systems, Java programming, data analytics, and previous Hadoop experience are all huge pluses. We're looking for customer-facing hands-on technologists with a track record of success to join us.

Responsibilities:

• You would be working with customers, partners, and prospects to understand and propose solutions

using Cloudera technologies

• Lead technical sales process for numerous customers day to day, from introductory meetings (net new

sales) through post-sales (customer satisfaction, upselling, and subscription renewals)

• Map your customer requirements to current and future offerings

• Educate your prospects on the business value of Clouderafferings

• Drive progress towards successful sales, in concert with Account Executives

• You should focus on customer success

• Continuously learn and update your skills in quickly evolving technologies

Qualifications:

• Ability to switch context quickly throughout the day with numerous contending demands

• Minimum 3 years experience and success working in a customer-facing role

• Hands-on, technical, problem solver

• Development experience with Java / OO programming

• Unix/Linux expertise required

• Comfortable partnering with customers and public speaking

• Demonstrated experience gathering and understanding customer business requirements

• Experience with data warehousing and relational database architecture

• Knowledge of distributed systems

• Knowledge of ETL and ETL workflows

Experience with many of the following:

• Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL

• SQL development and optimization

• Troubleshooting

• Concurrency and synchronization

• Fallacies of distributed computing

• Common IPC/RPC methods and patterns

• High availability and business continuity

• Queuing patterns and pipeline design

• Batch operations

• Messaging systems and patterns

• Solid OS / networking fundamentals

• Virtual memory management

• File system design

• Optimization

• System administration knowledge

• Network architecture