Senior Sales Engineer - Illinois

PreSales Collective; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohesity is seeking a driven Sr. Sales Engineer to support enterprise sales engagements and help customers adopt Cohesity's data security and management platform.

This role collaborates with Account Executives to drive new opportunities, articulate tailored technical solutions, and build credibility as a trusted technical advisor to customers and partners. You'll engage with security, data protection, and cloud technology stakeholders across complex deployments, contributing to account-level

Job description

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data - across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We've been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

We are seeking a driven and technically strong Sr. Sales Engineer to support enterprise sales engagements and help customers adopt Cohesity's modern data security and management platform. This role is suited for a high-performing Sales Engineer who is building depth across security, data protection, and cloud technologies while expanding their ability to independently support complex customer engagements.

As a Sr Sales Engineer, you will partner closely with Account Executives to drive new customer opportunities and expansions by delivering tailored technical solutions. You will support opportunity execution end-to-end, engage a wide range of technical and business stakeholders, and develop credibility as a trusted technical advisor to customers and partners.

This role emphasizes strong technical execution, collaboration, and growing ownership of account-level technical strategy, with guidance and support from senior SEs and leadership.

How You’ll Spend Your Time Here

• Drive new customer and expansion opportunities by articulating Cohesity's Data Cloud portfolio-backup, recovery,