Careers

Your Timing is Perfect
100x performance breakthroughs in computer science don’t happen every day. However, at Tokutek, our technology is exactly that revolutionary, resulting in the single biggest improvement to database performance in over thirty years. We are hiring the team who will build a new foundation for today’s databases, one that will last another thirty years or more.

Come to Tokutek to make make a lasting contribution to the most powerful and important class of system software: the relational database. Work with the brightest minds in the field. Learn first hand how world class innovation combined with disciplined engineering is yielding the most important new data processing technology on the market today.

Are you that good? Then we’d like to hear from you.

Position: Field Engineer / Sales Engineer

We are looking for a full-time Field / Sales Engineer to help us assist and support our growing customer base. This starts with handling all technical aspects of the customer acquisition process from product evaluation through production deployment and also includes post-sales technical support.

Responsibilities

  • Primary contact for all product evaluations and proof-of-concept projects
  • Raise Tokutek awareness via blogging, social networking, user groups, presentations, webinars, and conferences
  • Advocate customer technical requirements in product roadmap discussions based on customer interactions
  • Help identify and perform most important benchmarks (e.g., sysbench, TPC-C)

Requirements
The ideal candidate has excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate technical details clearly via e-mail. Prior experience should include:

  • Proficiency in SQL (programming, architecture, concepts)
  • Experience in administration of relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
  • Strong interest in customer-facing roles
  • Minimal travel required; primary customer contact is via email, Skype, and phone
  • Ability to work independently in an entrepreneurial, start-up environment
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or other technical discipline is required

Desirable

  • Deep expertise with MySQL and an understanding of the impacts of indexing and schema design on query optimization
  • Application development or scripting experience (e.g., C, C++, Python, Perl, shell, Ruby, PHP)
  • Linux experience

Education

  • BA/BS degree

Submit: Please send your resume to careers@tokutek.com.

Applications received by postal mail or Fax will NOT be accepted
. No Agencies.

Company Background:

Tokutek develops and sells advanced database technology based on research originally conducted at MIT, Rutgers, and SUNY Stony Brook. Unlike the incremental technology improvements of other database companies, Tokutek’s proprietary Fractal Tree® indexing technology offers two orders of magnitude improvement over conventional B-tree indexing. TokuDB, our flagship product, is a plug-in storage engine for MySQL and is ideally suited for customers who face large incoming data rates such as high traffic websites or complex website applications.