Inngest · 2 months ago
Founding Sales Engineer
US/San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expInngest is a growing company looking for a Founding Sales Engineer to lead technical engagement with prospective customers. This role involves owning the sales pipeline, conducting technical discovery, and collaborating with various teams to drive revenue and shape product direction.
Cloud Computing
Responsibilities
Own and drive a pipeline of technically sophisticated enterprise / mid-market accounts
Lead technical discovery conversations, deeply understand customer architecture, constraints, and decision processes
Partner with founders and marketing to craft compelling ROI/technical proposals and solution sell stories
Lead or support proof-of-concept (POC) engagements: design, architecture review, benchmarks, integrations
Influence procurement, legal, security, and IT stakeholders on technical due diligence
Act as the technical voice in sales cycles, fielding architecture questions, performance, scale, security concerns
Alongside dev/rel and our content engineers, help build or influence reusable artifacts (demos, templates, solution guides, reference code) that scale across deals
Work with product & engineering to triage feedback, prioritize features, and shape our roadmap based on customer needs
Qualification
Required
Previous experience working at a Seed or Series A company
4+ years hands-on experience in a product-led growth selling motion as a pre-sales, solutions engineering, systems engineering, or technical AE role
Comfortable with code, APIs, SDKs, integrations, architecture reviews (you might need to dig into TypeScript, Python, Golang, or cloud infra)
Experience working with developer or infrastructure platforms, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, or backend systems
Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical nuance into business value and ROI stories
Empathy for developers and a strong sense of developer experience
Self-starter mindset — comfortable in ambiguity and creating process where none exists
Ability to work remotely with alignment across timezones; ideally overlapping U.S. business hours
Benefits
Commission based off of deals closed
Company
Inngest
Inngest is the developer platform for easily building reliable workflows with zero infrastructure.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Inngest has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$31.6MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzNotable CapitalAfore Capital
2025-09-17Series A· $21M
2024-01-30Series Unknown· $6.1M
2023-07-12Seed· $3M
Leadership Team
Tony Holdstock-Brown
Founder / CEO
Dan Farrelly
CTO + Co-founder
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