Senior Field Specialist - Data Engineering & Streaming (Pre-Sales)

Location: Remote within the United States; primary work location may include California, Colorado, or Illinois

Annual base salary: California $166,000–$230,000; Colorado $146,000–$180,000; Illinois $154,000–$190,000. Sales roles are also eligible for a commission plan.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud-native data management and analytics solutions for enterprise data engineering, streaming, and AI-readiness use cases.

What you will do

• Lead customer engagements by designing and presenting scalable cloud-native data engineering architectures and business outcomes.
• Provide technical expertise throughout the sales cycle, including proofs of concept, solution sizing, adoption, data preparation, CDC, and streaming use cases.
• Troubleshoot complex data pipeline issues and lead technical escalations to support customer success.
• Develop enablement materials, explore cloud-native batch and streaming technologies, and share best practices.
• Translate customer feedback and EMEA-specific requirements into actionable product and engineering insights.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering while representing hirify.global in community activities and industry events.

Requirements

• Experience leading mission-critical data use cases in enterprise industries such as financial services, retail, healthcare, or the public sector.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying enterprise-grade data engineering pipelines and real-time streaming solutions.
• Hands-on expertise with Apache Spark, Airflow, Apache NiFi, Apache Flink, and Apache Kafka.
• Experience architecting production data deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including data preparation, CDC, and large-scale ingestion.
• Experience delivering PoCs and MVPs that lead to production deployments, with attention to data security, quality, governance, and AI readiness.
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to engage data engineers, technical stakeholders, and senior executives.

Nice to have

• Pre-sales or technical consulting experience focused on big data and AI platforms.
• Experience with Confluent, Databricks, AWS EMR or Glue, DataOps, CI/CD, and automated data quality frameworks.
• Knowledge of hirify.global CDE, CDF, SDX, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes, and open-source data and AI ecosystems.
• Relevant technical certifications and experience with data engineering foundations for machine learning, deep learning, or generative AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work-from-home policy.
• Generous paid time off and company-wide unplugged days.
• Mental and physical wellness programs.
• Phone and internet reimbursement.
• Career development opportunities, comprehensive benefits, paid volunteer time, and employee resource groups.
• This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.