Customer Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to lead the technical side of sales, from discovery through to technical win.
• Design elegant data architectures using DuckDB, MotherDuck, and the modern data stack... always with simplicity and performance in mind.
• Create and deliver tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that really get customers flapping with excitement.
• Translate business needs into scalable, cost-effective, and delightful technical solutions.
• Work cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to bring customer feedback to the nest and shape the roadmap.
• Be a trusted technical advisor, helping customers navigate their journey with MotherDuck from pilot to production.
• Build and deploy AI-powered automations that scale your own impact... think less manual prep, more time wowing customers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a data engineer, analytics engineer, or similar, with hands-on skills in SQL, Python, and cloud-native data tooling.
• 2+ years in a pre-sales or solutions engineering role, ideally in the data or analytics space.
• Proven, hands-on experience with OLAP workloads... you've designed and optimized for analytical query patterns.
• You've built with or alongside AI systems in a real way... not just using AI tools to go a bit faster, but actually automating workflows, building agents, and multiplying your own output through smart systems.
• You've worked with tools like BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and you're always curious about what's hatching in the modern data stack.
• You’ve worked with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or other agent harnesses to empower yourself and others.
• You love talking to customers, whiteboarding solutions, and quacking confidently in front of both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deep familiarity with data warehouse architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.

[Nice to have] Experience with DuckDB and/or MotherDuck (or at least a strong curiosity to learn and dive deep).