Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer

Responsibilities

• You will assess a prospect’s technical requirements and apply extensive knowledge of Chainguard products to illustrate how a deal will satisfy the client’s unmet needs
• You will cultivate relationships with decision-makers at all levels of an organization and negotiate the competing needs of multiple stakeholders within an organization
• You will secure technical wins using methods such as demos, RFP/RFI responses, lead POVs, partner with engineering for requested features, and participate in conferences and industry events (when applicable)
• Partner with our Sales Team to help customers evaluate and prove the value of our solution
• Focus on acquiring new customer “logos” in addition to growing existing customer base
• Own all technical aspects of sales opportunities and assisting current customers understand the value of Chainguard
• Listen to our customers and understand their challenges
• Conduct product demonstrations and POVs/POCs
• Actively participate in webinars, meetups, conferences and other marketing initiatives

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. You can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
• Chainguard is a cloud-native development platform that provides low-to-zero CVE container images for building and running applications.
• Kirkland, Washington, USA
• https://www.chainguard.dev
• Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
• Represents job field similar to this job
• Sales
• Engineering and Development
• Trends of Total Sponsorships
• *2026
• (1)
• 2024
• 2023
• (2)
• Late Stage
• Total Funding
• $892M
• Key Investors
• General Catalyst
• IVP,Kleiner Perkins
• IVP,Lightspeed Venture Partners,Redpoint
• 2025-10-23
• Debt Financing· $280M
• 2025-04-23
• Series D· $356M

Qualifications

• Experience as a Sales Engineer / Pre-Sales Engineer
• Experience with MEDDPICC and or Command of the Message sales frameworks
• Experience selling into Enterprise (5+ years) and Mid Market prospects
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, Serverless, Docker)
• Cloud technology (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.)
• Cloud security or containers security
• App Security
• Startup experience
• Smart and passionate people that can persevere to success
• People acting as trusted advisors, able to build credibility with customers
• Strong team players committed to help and mentor their peers

Required skills

• , MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, Enterprise Sales, Mid-Market Sales, Kubernetes, Serverless Computing, Docker, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Container Security, Application Security

Experience

• 5+ years