Sales Engineer (API & Developer Platform) - Filestack
Remote
Contracted
Sales
Experienced
About Filestack
Filestack provides a powerful content ingestion and file handling platform that enables developers and businesses to upload, transform, and deliver files at scale. We power mission-critical workflows across industries like edtech,
marketplaces, and enterprise SaaS.We’re at an inflection point, shifting from a self-serve, SMB-heavy motion to
a more focused, enterprise and mid-market go-to-market strategy. This role is critical in helping us win and expand higher-value customers.
The Role
You will be the technical backbone of the sales process, helping prospects understand how Filestack fits into complex architectures, accelerating time-to-first-value, and removing technical friction in deals. You’ll work directly with sales, product, and engineering to:
What You’ll Do
1. Drive Technical Wins in Sales Cycles
What We’re Looking For
Must-Have
What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)
Filestack provides a powerful content ingestion and file handling platform that enables developers and businesses to upload, transform, and deliver files at scale. We power mission-critical workflows across industries like edtech,
marketplaces, and enterprise SaaS.We’re at an inflection point, shifting from a self-serve, SMB-heavy motion to
a more focused, enterprise and mid-market go-to-market strategy. This role is critical in helping us win and expand higher-value customers.
The Role
You will be the technical backbone of the sales process, helping prospects understand how Filestack fits into complex architectures, accelerating time-to-first-value, and removing technical friction in deals. You’ll work directly with sales, product, and engineering to:
- Close new business
- Improve activation (first API call → production usage)
- Influence product direction based on real customer needs
What You’ll Do
1. Drive Technical Wins in Sales Cycles
- Partner with AEs on mid-market and enterprise deals
- Lead technical discovery (APIs, architecture, workflows)
- Run tailored demos based on customer use cases (not generic walk throughs)
- Own POCs and trials to ensure prospects reach “aha moment” quickly
- Help new customers go from signup → first API call → production
- Identify friction in onboarding and provide feedback to product/engineering
- Create lightweight implementation guides and reference architectures
- Design and build working prototypes using Filestack APIs
- Validate performance, scalability, and integration requirements
- De-risk deals by proving real-world feasibility
- Translate customer requirements into product insights
- Surface patterns (e.g., document workflows in edtech, media ingestion, etc.)
- Influence roadmap based on revenue-impacting gaps
- Reusable demo environments
- Sample apps / code snippets
- Vertical-specific use case playbooks (e.g., edtech, marketplaces)
What We’re Looking For
Must-Have
- 3–7+ years as a Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Developer Advocate
- Strong experience with APIs, SDKs, and developer tools
- Ability to read/write code (JavaScript, Python, Go, React or similar)
- Experience working with: REST APIs, Frontend frameworks (React/Vue) and Cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Comfortable in technical conversations with engineers AND business stakeholders
- Experience with: File uploads, media processing, or content pipelines; AND CDN, storage, or edge delivery concepts
- Background in developer-first companies (Twilio, Stripe, Cloudinary, etc.)
- Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles ($25K–$100K+ deals)
What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)
- Independently run technical discovery and demos
- Help close 2–3 key deals by removing technical blockers
- Improve activation rate (signup → first API call)
- Deliver at least one reusable demo or POC template
- Identify top 3 friction points in onboarding/implementation
An Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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