Sales Engineer

About the role

As a Sales Engineer at Astronomer, you will partner with prospects and customers to guide them in deploying powerful data workflows. You will lead technical sales motions, solve complex data challenges, and influence product evolution through client feedback. This role is ideal for someone looking to make a visible impact while becoming an expert in workflow orchestration and Apache Airflow.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical sales motion in partnership with Account Executives including discovery, demos, proof-of-concepts, and architecture discussions
• Understand customer pain and translate it into high-impact technical solutions tied to business value
• Build and deliver tailored demos and POCs using Python, Airflow, and related tools
• Guide customers through modern DataOps strategies from orchestration to observability and automation
• Influence product feedback loops, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to go-to-market strategy

Required skills

• French
• Python
• CLI
• Docker
• Cloud-native data architectures
• Data engineering
• Orchestration
• ELT/ETL
• DAGs
• CI/CD
• Airflow
• Snowflake
• Databricks
• BigQuery
• dbt

Nice to have

• Observability
• Kubernetes

Qualifications

• 3–10 years total experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role

About the Company

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. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data.