Job Description
About You
To be a successful Sales Engineer at AppDynamics, you need to have experience in a sales engineer or customer-facing role, and be passionate about technical sales and working with customers. Ideally, you are ambitious and self-motivated, and have experience with application performance management technologies and techniques and Cloud and Big Data technologies. Other qualifications we are looking for include:
3-5 years experience working with at least one of the following languages: Java, .NET, PHP, JavaScript
Experience and competence working at OS command lines including Unix, Linux and Window command prompts.
Experience with Unix/Linux/Windows shell scripting
Knowledge of basic networking components and concepts. Ability to troubleshoot basic networking issues that may prevent communication between hosts
Experience with web servers and common relational databases used in today’s application architectures. Ability to understand SQL.
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Passionate about technical sales and working with customers
Ambitious and self-motivated with a high emotional IQ
Ability to work on multiple opportunities & POCs concurrently
Highly coachable with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional
Travel up to 50%
Desired Experience & Skills:
Experience with application performance management technologies and techniques
Experience with Cloud and Big Data technologies
Experience with common .NET web application architecture frameworks, distribution mechanisms and messaging components such as ASP.NET, ASMX, WCF, MSMQ, etc.
Experience with common Java web application architecture frameworks, distribution mechanisms and messaging components such as servlets, struts, Spring, EJB, web services, RMI, JMS, MQ-Series, etc.
About the Role
As a Sales Engineer at AppDynamics, you will be responsible for providing world class pre-sales technical support to the sales team. Working directly with customers you will be the subject matter expert on application performance management and AppDynamics. You will be responsible for delivering product demonstrations that directly address customer pain and emphasize AppDynamics’ industry leading APM solutions. During the sales cycle, you will lead the proof of concepts, demonstrating AppDynamics’ ability to meet and exceed customer requirements, often in the customer’s production environment. Finally, you will have the opportunity to work directly with our Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to share your knowledge and experiences to ultimately improve our business and our customers’ success.
AppDynamics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We appreciate and celebrate differences, and believe a diverse workforce benefits our employees, products and customers.