The Presales Hiring Index
Who is hiring Solutions Engineers and Sales Engineers, who stopped, and how long a role stays open. Built from company ATS feeds, not job-board reposts.
652presales roles open across 29 companies
- Opened
- 215
- Closed
- 244
- Net
- -29
- Median days open
- 31
- Remote
- 21.8%
Who moved this month
Every company that opened or closed a presales role in the last 30 days, ranked by how much they moved.
- databricks8581-4
- cloudflare2426+2
- datadog3116-15
- stripe1011+1
- gitlab713+6
- mongodb137-6
- elastic89+1
- pendo67+1
- okta13-13
- twilio7+7
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The data feed
All 652 open roles as CSV and JSON, with first-seen and last-seen dates on every one. The part you can filter, sort, and put in front of a client.
Under the job-data floor on purpose. TheirStack and Coresignal start at $49 a month for the whole market. This is 33 companies in one niche, so it costs less.
What the market is asking for
Role mix
| Role | Open | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Solutions Architect | 292 | 44.8% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 117 | 17.9% |
| Customer Engineer | 64 | 9.8% |
| Sales Engineer | 52 | 8% |
| Solutions Engineer | 48 | 7.4% |
| Solutions Consultant | 38 | 5.8% |
| Technical Account Manager | 26 | 4% |
| Other presales | 15 | 2.3% |
Seniority mix
| Band | Open | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Senior and above | 338 | 51.8% |
| Mid level | 303 | 46.5% |
| Early career | 11 | 1.7% |
Open roles by company
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| databricks | 271 |
| cloudflare | 70 |
| datadog | 43 |
| mongodb | 38 |
| stripe | 37 |
| elastic | 27 |
| notion | 26 |
| samsara | 18 |
| gitlab | 16 |
| twilio | 16 |
| okta | 14 |
| intercom | 9 |
| figma | 8 |
| pagerduty | 8 |
| vercel | 6 |
Where the roles are
| Location | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Hybrid, city not stated | 48 |
| Remote (US) | 33 |
| London | 32 |
| San Francisco | 30 |
| Tokyo | 28 |
| New York | 27 |
| United States | 25 |
| Distributed | 21 |
| Bengaluru | 19 |
| Singapore | 19 |
How to read this
- Coverage is 33 public ATS feeds, not the whole market. Treat every number as a sample of the companies tracked here.
- databricks accounts for 41.6% of open roles, so company-level totals lean toward it.
- 1 feed did not respond on the last run (amplitude), so roles at those companies are undercounted in this issue.
- "Opened this period" means first seen in these feeds during the window. It is not the employer's original posting date, and roles already live on 2026-07-29 are excluded so the tracking start does not read as market activity.
- A role reposted under the same company, title, and location counts as one continuous opening, so the median runs long for recycled requisitions.
- Compensation is not included. These feeds do not expose salary in a form this pipeline captures.