Founding Sales Engineer

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October 20

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Sales Engineer

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Inngest

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SaaS • Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence

Inngest is a platform designed to simplify the creation and management of durable workflows and orchestration of background jobs in software development. It provides developers with tools to implement reliable step functions without handling infrastructure such as queues and state management, allowing for scalable and reliable system construction. With powerful SDKs and APIs, Inngest supports various use cases, including AI and multi-step workflows, designed to enhance developer productivity and reduce overhead. The platform is versatile, supporting deployment on serverless environments as well as traditional servers, and emphasizes security, compliance, and developer experience. Inngest's open-source core and comprehensive documentation make it accessible and user-friendly for modern engineering teams.

2 - 10 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• Own and drive a pipeline of technically sophisticated enterprise / mid-market accounts • Lead technical discovery conversations, deeply understand customer architecture, constraints, and decision processes • Partner with founders and marketing to craft compelling ROI/technical proposals and solution sell stories • Lead or support proof-of-concept (POC) engagements: design, architecture review, benchmarks, integrations • Influence procurement, legal, security, and IT stakeholders on technical due diligence • Act as the technical voice in sales cycles, fielding architecture questions, performance, scale, security concerns • Alongside dev/rel and our content engineers, help build or influence reusable artifacts (demos, templates, solution guides, reference code) that scale across deals • Work with product & engineering to triage feedback, prioritize features, and shape our roadmap based on customer needs

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience working at a Seed or Series A company • 4+ years hands-on experience in a product-led growth selling motion as a pre-sales, solutions engineering, systems engineering, or technical AE role • Comfortable with code, APIs, SDKs, integrations, architecture reviews (you might need to dig into TypeScript, Python, Golang, or cloud infra) • Experience working with developer or infrastructure platforms, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, or backend systems • Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical nuance into business value and ROI stories • Empathy for developers and a strong sense of developer experience • Self-starter mindset — comfortable in ambiguity and creating process where none exists • Ability to work remotely with alignment across timezones; ideally overlapping U.S. business hours

🏖️ Benefits

• As this role focuses on GTM, you'll also be eligible for commission based off of deals closed.