Associate Sales Engineer

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading time series platform used to collect, store, and analyze all time series data at any scale. Developers can query and analyze their time-stamped data in real-time to discover, interpret, and share new insights to gain a competitive edge. InfluxData is a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com .

Are you fascinated by the Internet of Things (IoT), real-time analytics, and the systems that keep factories, vehicles, energy grids and software infrastructure running? Are you a recent graduate who loves to code, learns fast, and wants to work at the intersection of engineering and customers? InfluxData is looking for an Associate Sales Engineer to join our EMEA team — someone with a love of technology and a passion for helping customers discover what's possible.

This is an early-career role. We don't expect you to have done this job before. We will teach you the craft of sales engineering; you bring the technical curiosity, the coding ability, and the appetite.

This is a remote position based in the UK. Unlike our senior Sales Engineers, this role does not require regular customer site visits. You will work with customers remotely and alongside senior Sales Engineers, often building solutions on a customer's behalf — with occasional travel for team meetings, conferences and meetups.

What you'll be doing

Develop deep, hands-on expertise in InfluxDB and the wider InfluxData platform — including our APIs, client libraries, and integrations with tools like Telegraf, Grafana, MQTT and industrial protocols

Partner with senior Sales Engineers on active opportunities: building demos, proof-of-concept environments, sample integrations and scripts on behalf of prospects and customers

Provide responsive technical coverage across the sales team — answering product questions, running standard demos, and unblocking opportunities so senior SEs can focus on complex deals

Contribute to formal RFx responses and informal prospect Q&A/workshop sessions

Be an advocate for prospects and customers with our Engineering, Product and Support teams — relaying what you hear on the front line

Write content for blogs, community forums and sample-code repositories

Learn the mechanics of enterprise software sales (discovery, qualification, MEDDIC) from an experienced team

What we're looking for

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related discipline — or equivalent demonstrable technical ability.

Comfortable writing code in at least one of Python, Go, JavaScript/Node.js or Java — enough to build working examples, integrations and small tools. Show us something you've built: side projects, hackathon entries, open-source contributions or coursework you're proud of all count. If you have supporting material, please submit that as part of your application.

Familiarity with Linux fundamentals and the command line

Some exposure to working with data — SQL, NoSQL, CSVs and scripts, or data coursework

Excellent communication skills: you can explain a technical concept simply, to a technical or non-technical audience, in writing and in person

Curiosity about how businesses and physical operations work — one week you might be learning about battery telemetry, the next about network monitoring

Comfort with ambiguity and a bias for figuring things out: the best people in this role treat "I don't know yet" as the start of the fun

Fluent written and spoken English

Bonus points if you have

Tinkered with hardware, sensors or microcontrollers — Raspberry Pi, Arduino, home automation, robotics, vehicles

Any exposure to IoT or industrial technologies: MQTT, OPC-UA, SCADA, PLCs, telemetry