Cortex by Palo Alto Networks

The industry’s most comprehensive product suite for security operations.

Principal Sales Engineer

Sales EngineerSales EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2005H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

39 days ago

Salary

$180K - $210K / year

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishMicroservices

Job Description

• Establish relationships with engineering, SRE, DevX, and security teams acting as their technical resource throughout the pre-sales cycle. • Work side-by-side with our account executives to technically scope opportunities and partner on pre-sales engagement. • Understand and empathize with service architecture hurdles and headaches, delivering valuable technical solutions • Guide prospects in implementing Cortex best practices and delivering ad hoc product sessions. • Implement internal solutions or enhance processes that improve quality of life for other sales engineers on the team. • Provide guidance and feedback to engineering and product development teams from experiences in the field. • Ensure the technical win for Cortex with tailored product demonstrations, guided enablement and onboarding, as well as routine technical office hours. • Work strategically and creatively to ensure the prospect’s success during implementation, devising innovative solutions when appropriate. • Attend conferences, helping to evangelize Cortex to the engineering community. • Up to 50% travel required. • Coach, mentor, train, and provide feedback to more junior members and additionally your peers on the Sales Engineering team

Job Requirements

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 8+ years of hands-on industry experience at high growth start-up environment
  • Strong understanding of microservices and SaaS product to answer technical questions or concerns from customers
  • Experienced with writing scripts, automation, and operations for setting up, onboarding customers
  • Experience with several technologies in the software development and monitoring space such as APM, Observability, Security and Compliance, Containerization and Orchestration, Code Coverage, etc preferred
  • Strong written and verbal communication for driving adoption and resolve questions/concerns/objections from customers
  • Highly organized, flexible, with can-do attitude
  • Strong problem investigation and resolution skills
  • Ability to mentor and coach junior team members
  • Ability to provide guidance and feedback on best practices in pre-sales execution to leadership

Benefits

  • National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)
  • Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours
  • 401k plan
  • Gender-neutral parental leave
  • $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
  • $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)
  • Pet Insurance

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