Strategic Sales Engineer, Bay Area

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · CA · Sales Engineering

This role is a Strategic Sales Engineer at Rubrik, a company focused on data security, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. The role involves providing technical direction and business guidance to the sales team, driving technical programs, customer demonstrations, POCs, and evangelizing Rubrik's Data Resilience, Observability, and Remediation tools. While the company mentions AI acceleration and agent clouds, the core function of this specific role is sales engineering, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provides technical leadership and direction to customers and internal staff in the development of fully integrated technology solutions in support of pre-sales activities in the assigned market.
  2. Assists in the analysis, design and development of fully integrated technology solutions.
  3. Demonstrates technical leadership and subject matter expertise on Rubrik’s products, distributed architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the SAN product space.
  4. Makes technical and sales presentations to customer's technical staff and senior management.
  5. Serves as a trusted technology advisor to customers and serves as an internal resource on technical issues or specific business applications within an assigned market segment.

Skills

Required

  • sales engineering experience
  • software or data center environment
  • cloud data management
  • backup and disaster recovery
  • data analytics
  • business acumen
  • working with Cx0 level personnel

Nice to have

  • highly energetic
  • strong hands-on, 'can do' approach
  • entrepreneurial
  • strong work ethic
  • resourceful
  • 'get it done' attitude
  • moving in a fast-paced environment
  • handling multiple calls/demos per day with immediate follow up
  • adaptable
  • open-minded