Sales Engineer, Netherlands

Rubrik; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A disruptive tech company is seeking a Sales Engineer to provide technical direction and business guidance in the Netherlands. The role involves developing solutions, leading sales calls, and building relationships with customers. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of sales engineering experience, strong technical knowledge in cloud data management, and must be able to communicate effectively in Dutch. This position offers an opportunity to impact significant technological advancements in data security and management.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of sales engineering experience, preferably in software or data center.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with customers and teams.
• Experience in cloud data management, backup, disaster recovery, and data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and business guidance to the sales team.
• Develop and propose solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Qualify sales opportunities and lead technical sales calls.

Skills

Sales engineering experience

Technical knowledge in cloud data management

Strong hands-on approach

Business acumen

Dutch speaker

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Ready for an opportunity to make a substantial impact with a disruptive tech company while building your pre-sales career? Rubrik, Inc. has an amazing product, a supercharged team and the financial backing of Lightspeed Ventures, Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures. Bottom line, if you have limitless drive and like to win, we want to talk to you!

Rubrik is looking for Sales Engineers in the Netherlands to provide technical direction and business guidance to the regional sales team. As a Sales Engineer, you will be accountable for regional revenue goals by driving innovative technical programs and overseeing day-to-day account-level activities. You will be responsible for evangelising, positioning, and architecting the industry's first hyper-converged hybrid cloud data management platform for a mix of enterprise, mid-market, and small business customers throughout your region.

About the position:

• 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.
• Assists in the analysis, design and development of fully integrated technology solutions.
• Demonstrates technical leadership and subject matter expertise on Rubrik’s products, distributed architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the SAN product space.
• Acts as technical expert and consultant to develop and propose solutions that meet the technology and business requirements of assigned customers.
• Makes technical and sales presentations to customer's technical staff and senior management.
• 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.
• Successfully builds relationships with the account team, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives and engages and leverages corporate resources, abilities, budgets and personnel as appropriate.
• Leads technical sales calls.
• Qualifies sales opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding.

About you:

• 5-7 years of sales engineering experience preferably in a software or data center environment.
• Driven – need for success, highly energetic with a strong hands-on, “can do” approach.
• The successful candidate must have a fundamental breadth of technical knowledge in cloud data management, backup and disaster recovery and data analytics.
• Entrepreneurial - willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful, “get it done” attitude.
• Strives in moving in a fast-paced environment; including handling multiple calls/demos per day with immediate follow up.
• A high level of business acumen and experience working with Cx0 level personnel, bringing technology solutions to solve business challenges.
• Smart, adaptable and open-minded.
• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent experience.
• Dutch speaker.

Join Us in Securing the World's Data

Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.