# Senior Sales Engineer at Prefect

- Company: Prefect
- What the company does: Orchestrate workflows with Prefect. Connect AI agents to your tools and data with Horizon. Open-source foundations, production-ready platforms. Backed by Bessemer.
- Company website: https://www.prefect.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $154K to $222K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prefect/5d1181d6-f772-4a6e-93d1-16d555e2fb8d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/prefect-senior-sales-engineer/

## About the role

Own the technical side of enterprise deals. F rom discovery through close: advising prospects, presenting and demonstrating the value of our platforms from a technical perspective. Distill the use case. Most prospects don't arrive with a clean requirement. They arrive with a data platform, a pile of tools, a team of engineers and users expecting answers, and a budget. You figure out how our products fit together to solve for their use case, then help them validate the approach.

## What they're looking for

- Five things. If you have these, apply, even if the nice-to-haves are thin
- 3+ years of engineering experience, building real solutions. Data engineering, DevOps, software engineering, data science: the discipline matters less than the fact that you've built something programmatically and shipped it. Python is our house language
- 2+ years in a customer facing role. Deep discovery skills and the habit of uncovering the real problem before proposing anything is key. You ask the second and third question, and you notice what the customer isn't saying
- You explain hard things clearly to engineers. What's required is that a senior platform engineer finishes a call with you and trusts you
- 2+ years of Enterprise infrastructure depth. In at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), and comfort with Kubernetes, networking, IAM, service mesh, and a production database like Postgres
- Orchestration tooling as a user, builder, or seller: Prefect, Dagster, Airflow, Temporal, Step Functions, etc

Tags: Go To Market