# Pre-Sales Engineer, North America at QuestDB

- Company: QuestDB (YC S20)
- What the company does: High-performance time series database. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://questdb.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, United States / Remote (New York, NY, US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/questdb/jobs/IPyIzny-pre-sales-engineer-north-america
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/questdb-pre-sales-engineer-north-america/

## About the role

We're hiring a pre-sales engineer for North America to own the technical side of every sales cycle in the region.

## What they're looking for

- Has run or supported technical evaluations with enterprise buyers, and knows how to define success criteria and hold a proof of concept to them
- Experience in a hands-on role with databases, streaming or data infrastructure, as a pre-sales engineer, solutions engineer, data engineer or software engineer
- Based in New York City, or on the US East Coast and able to be with customers in New York regularly
- Strong SQL and a solid understanding of database internals: storage layout, partitioning, indexing, query planning, and why columnar storage and vectorized execution matter for time series
- A precise communicator: explains trade-offs to a sceptical engineer, writes clearly, and says "I will check" rather than guessing
- At ease in front of customers, in person and on calls, and able to run a technical session alone

Tags: Sales