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Sales Engineer
Company | Fastly |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $162742 – $195291 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ year experience in a similar role
- Experience selling to or working in relevant industry
- Knowledge in cloud and web related technologies is required
- Customer facing experience is essential
- Experience performing demos in front of both technical and business focused prospects
- Comfort with networking/security systems/protocols and Linux systems are essential
- Impeccable written communication skills are important
- Comfortable keeping up with technology trends in cloud services
- Ability to travel domestically
Responsibilities
- Understand customer needs and assist in developing a technical sales strategy
- Perform product demonstrations live in the field or via video conference
- Provide pre-sales support to customers in establishment of configurations and services
- Participate in product, sales and role-specific trainings so as to remain effective in your role
- Be able to contribute content for general customer education
- Assist in responding effectively to RFPs
- Provide pre and post sales support to Account Executives and Account Managers
- Research prospects business/technology prior to engaging with the prospect
- Build and support customer POC/POV solutions (this can include WAF, Delivery, Streaming, Edge Compute, etc)
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of video streaming and W3 technologies is a plus
- Ability to code/learn a web scripting / programming language (Varnish / VCL / JavaScript / Rust / Go) is a plus
- Willing to mentor junior sales engineers learn and grow
- Willing to educate Account Executives and Account Managers
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field is preferred