Corporate Engineering Technical Sales DBA
INFINIDAT
Waltham, MA(remote)
At Infinidat, we help enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. We are a leading provider of enterprise-class storage solutions. The company’s software-focused architecture delivers sub-millisecond latency, full availability, and scalability with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than competing storage technologies.
We are seeking a highly skilled and versatile Corporate Engineering Technical Sales DBA to join our dynamic team. This hybrid role blends deep technical expertise in enterprise databases with strong customer-facing, solution-selling, and enablement skills. You will serve as the bridge between product engineering and customer engagements, capable of troubleshooting complex systems and articulating solutions to both technical and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the subject matter expert for all major database platforms, including: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other emerging technologies.
- Troubleshoot and optimize database performance in complex, multi-platform environments.
- Understand and demonstrate the integration between databases and storage arrays, including: RAID configurations, replication technologies, snapshotting, and backup/restore methods.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to design and present technical solutions aligned to business goals.
- Write and maintain technical documentation, including: White papers, best practices, deployment guides, and integration manuals.
- Develop and utilize Python, shell scripting, and RESTful API calls to automate tasks and integrate solutions.
- Work across modern operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and AIX, and understand virtualization technologies: Such as LPARs (AIX), KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.
- Present to large audiences, including customer technical teams, executives, and partner engineering groups.
- Provide technical enablement, training, and knowledge transfer to field teams and customers.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers in pre-sales and post-sales engagements.
- Travel, a few times a year for a few days, is required.
Requirements:
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of hands-on DBA experience with enterprise database platforms.
- Strong experience in performance tuning, including backup and architecture review.
- Working knowledge of storage technologies and how they interact with database systems.
- Basic programming/scripting skills:
- Python, Bash/Shell, and working knowledge of RESTful APIs.
- Proven experience with Windows, Linux, and AIX OS administration, including virtualized environments.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, comfortable speaking to technical and executive audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and produce high-quality technical content.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a technical sales, pre-sales, or field engineering role.
- Familiarity with cloud database platforms (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Oracle Cloud).
- Experience writing and maintaining automation scripts for performance benchmarking and diagnostics.
- Knowledge of containerized DBs (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes-based deployments) is a plus.
Soft Skills:
- Self-motivated, highly organized, and capable of working in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment.
- Able to translate complex technical topics into customer-friendly language.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, sales, product management, and marketing teams.
About Infinidat
Infinidat’s enterprise storage portfolio provides global Fortune 500 enterprises and service providers with best-in-class solutions for primary storage, next-generation data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience. Infinidat’s acclaimed InfuzeOS is the one of the most flexible and complete enterprise software-defined storage architectures in the industry. We recently announced powerful enhancements, an extensive expansion, and the dynamic evolution of our award-winning G4 enterprise cyber and AI storage solutions!
Not only has Infinidat won 22 awards in the first half of 2025, but has also been a 7-time winner of the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Award for Primary Storage and we can go on, and on, and on!
Salary Range: $200,000 - $225,000