Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vega is a cybersecurity startup developing an AI-native platform for security operations centers. The Senior Sales Engineer will partner with enterprise sales teams to support strategic accounts, lead technical discovery and evaluations, design security architectures, and position Vega against legacy SIEM and security data platforms.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Regional Sales Managers to support a defined set of strategic enterprise accounts
- Act as the technical lead throughout complex enterprise sales cycles, from discovery through close
- Conduct deep technical discovery to understand customer security operations, data pipelines, detection strategies, and scalability requirements
- Design and present enterprise-grade architectures that demonstrate how Vega fits into and modernizes the SOC
- Lead technical evaluations, pilots, and proof-of-value (PoV) engagements that clearly articulate ROI, performance, and operational impact
- Deliver compelling technical demos tailored to executive, practitioner, and platform audiences
- Position Vega as a strategic alternative to legacy SIEM, security analytics, and data platforms, addressing scale, cost, and operational complexity
- Support executive briefings, customer QBRs, and architecture reviews with senior security and IT leadership
- Provide product feedback based on real-world customer use cases to influence roadmap and go-to-market strategy
- Maintain accurate technical opportunity notes, evaluation plans, and PoV outcomes in Salesforce and internal systems
- Stay current on evolving security analytics trends, cloud architectures, and AI-driven SOC workflows
Skills
- * 5+ years of experience in a Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or Pre-Sales role within cybersecurity or enterprise software
- * Strong technical background in modern security architectures, including SIEM, XDR, security data lakes, log management, and cloud-scale analytics
- * Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders and long evaluation periods
- * Experience in high growth, fast paced environments
- * Ability to engage credibly with CISOs, VP-level security leaders, architects, and hands-on practitioners
- * Proven ability to design and explain scalable architectures across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments
- * Comfort leading technical evaluations, PoVs, and hands-on workshops in enterprise environments
- * Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate deep technical concepts into business value
- * Strong collaboration skills and a team-first mindset when working with Sales and Product
- * Willingness to travel regionally for customer meetings and strategic account engagement
- * Hands-on experience deploying, operating, or migrating SIEM platforms at scale
- * Familiarity with large-scale log ingestion pipelines, detection engineering, and SOC workflows
- * Familiarity with Vega's mission, architecture, or AI-native approach to security operations
- * Recent experience working in early-stage startups (Series B/C)
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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