Principal Sales Engineer (Vertica)

Location: Korea Home Office; assigned territory across South Korea. Full working rights in South Korea required.

Company

hirify.global develops Vertica, a distributed SQL analytics platform for high-performance, cost-efficient analytics across on-premises, private cloud, hybrid, and public cloud environments.

What you will do

• Build trusted technical relationships with customers across the assigned Korea territory and partner with Account Executives.
• Lead technical discovery, requirements analysis, solution design, demonstrations, performance analysis, cost optimization, and proof-of-concept execution.
• Design and validate workload optimization and migration strategies from legacy enterprise data warehouses, cloud data warehouses, and Hadoop/Spark environments.
• Integrate Vertica with Kafka, Spark, DBT, Airflow, ETL, BI, and AI ecosystems, including AWS, Azure, GCP, object storage, networking, and Kubernetes operations through Vertica DB Operator.
• Advise on security, governance, compliance, RBAC, encryption, auditing, masking/tokenization, private networking, and Korean data sovereignty requirements.
• Deliver reference architectures, best-practice guides, workshops, hands-on labs, technical sessions, solution briefs, and partner enablement.

Requirements

• Strong experience engaging customers in technical sales or solution architecture roles, ideally with analytics, data platforms, or hybrid cloud solutions.
• Ability to move between business-value conversations and deep technical discussions.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale SQL analytics, data modeling, workload optimization, and proof-of-concept delivery.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Java, Scala, or Bash.
• Practical experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, object storage, security, and Kubernetes-based container orchestration.
• Excellent documentation skills covering architecture diagrams, proof-of-concept reports, cost analysis, and migration blueprints.
• Ability to work independently across a geographically distributed APAC team.
• Full working rights in South Korea and fluent English are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Vertica or similar platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Teradata, Exadata, or Hadoop/Spark.
• Familiarity with in-database machine learning, Vertica ML, VerticaPy, or enterprise ML pipelines.
• Background in regulated industries including banking, telecommunications, government, healthcare, or large-scale enterprise environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements and benefits aligned with the Korean market.
• Competitive compensation and wellness programs.
• Learning and certification support.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodation available.
• Background and reference checks are part of the hiring process; additional eligibility checks may apply for export-controlled technologies.