QuestDB, the low-latency time-series database, is hiring a Pre-Sales Engineer for North America. The role involves owning the technical side of the sales cycle, running proofs of concept, and managing architecture conversations for high-stakes clients. Candidates will work directly with the CEO in New York and core engineering teams. The position focuses on benchmarking QuestDB against incumbent systems and handling security reviews for RFPs. Applicants should have experience running technical discovery and demos for quant teams and enterprise architecture boards. QuestDB processes millions of events per second and is used by tier-1 banks and crypto platforms. The company recently won Best Trading Analytics Platform at Trading Tech Summit Europe. The open-source repository has surpassed 17k GitHub stars.

Working at QuestDB involves a culture of ownership and autonomy. The team includes engineers who placed in the top 10 of the One Billion Row Challenge. The company expands into robotics, aerospace, and Physical AI. This hands-on individual-contributor role offers significant customer interaction and autonomy in a fast-growing database category.

QuestDB's engine is written in low-latency Java, Rust, C++, and assembly. It features columnar storage, vectorized and JIT-compiled SQL, and an open lakehouse tier on Parquet and Iceberg. QuestDB Enterprise offers a distributed deployment model. The database runs in production at tier-1 banks and exchanges across four continents.