# Customer Engineer

**Company:** [Motherduck](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/motherduck)
**Location:** New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Duckdb, BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Olap, AI, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
**Posted:** 2026-04-21

> Leads technical sales efforts by designing data architectures with DuckDB/MotherDuck, delivering demos/POCs, and providing advisory support to prospects. Requires 5+ years data engineering experience, 2+ years pre-sales, expertise in SQL/Python/modern data stack, and AI automation skills.

## Job Description

## 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).

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