Security Sales Engineer, Exposure Management

Check Point Software; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software seeks a Sales Engineer to join our security team, partnering with customers to tailor solutions that meet their unique challenges and operational requirements.

In this role you will lead technical engagements, deliver product demos, respond to RFPs/RFIs, and support the sales process from discovery to post-sale handoff, applying a deep understanding of enterprise networks and security architecture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a Sales Engineer or similar role in cybersecurity.
• Proven track record of leading end-to-end technical engagements—from discovery and requirements to post-sale support.
• Strong understanding of enterprise network and security architecture (firewalls, EDR, XDR, SIEM/SOC workflows).
• Experience delivering technical product demos and presenting to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with product deployment and troubleshooting in customer environments.
• Excellent time management, multi-tasking, and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical leadership: partner with customer SecOps teams to tailor security solutions addressing their challenges.
• Support the sales team on prospect calls and onsite visits with product demonstrations and technical explanations.
• Plan, manage and execute POVs; hands-on troubleshooting and installation of product required.
• Lead technical responses to RFPs/RFIs with clear, well-sourced answers from internal experts.
• Participate as a technical resource at prospect meetings, seminars, and events.

Skills

Sales engineering

Customer facing

Technical leadership

Product demos

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Why Join Us

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Why Join Us?

Why Join Us

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: The Sales Engineer plays a key technical leadership role, partnering closely with the customer’s SecOps teams to tailor solutions that precisely address their unique security challenges and operational requirements.
• Support the sales team on prospect conference calls and onsite visits by providing product demonstrations, responding to technical questions and explaining features in the context of solving the prospects’ business problems.
• Plan, manage and execute prospect POVs (Proof Of Value). Hands-On troubleshooting and installation of product is required.
• Lead technical response to RFPs and RFIs by writing clear responses to commonly asked questions and gathering answers from other internal technical experts.
• Participate as a technical resource at any/all prospect meetings, seminars and events.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or in a similar customer-facing technical role, preferably in the cybersecurity domain.
• Proven track record of leading end-to-end technical engagements - from discovery and requirements gathering through hands‑on implementation, POCs/POVs, and post-sale support.
• Strong understanding of enterprise network and security architecture (e.g., firewalls, EDR, XDR, SIEM/SOC workflows, vulnerability management).
• Experience delivering technical product demos and presenting to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience with product deployment and troubleshooting in customer environments.
• Excellent time management, multi-tasking, prioritization skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with threat exposure management platforms or risk-based vulnerability management tools.
• Background working with or for MSSPs, enterprise IT, or security operations teams.

Must be eligible to work in country of residence without sponsorship now or in the future.

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