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Sales Engineer II
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Huntress is seeking a Sales Engineer II to provide technical pre-sales expertise for its cybersecurity platform. The role partners with prospects and internal Sales, Marketing, Support, and Engineering teams to identify security gaps and position solutions. Candidates need at least four years of sales engineering or comparable experience, cybersecurity knowledge, and strong executive presentation skills. Relevant experience includes threat intelligence, malware analysis, cloud platforms, SIEM tools, MSPs, and VARs. This is a US-remote position with approximately 25% customer travel, with preference for Central time zones.
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I would begin by understanding the MSP's customer profile, tool stack, security operations maturity, and key operational pain points. I would then ask focused questions about endpoint visibility, alert triage, incident response, integrations, and reporting needs. Finally, I would map the platform's relevant capabilities to measurable outcomes and agree on clear evaluation criteria for the next step.
For the executive, I would focus on business risk, operational resilience, reduced response burden, and the impact on customer trust. For the analyst, I would explain detection logic, telemetry, workflow integrations, alert quality, and response procedures. I would connect both perspectives by showing how technical capabilities produce the business outcomes the executive values.
I would assess available data sources, log formats, API or connector support, alert routing, enrichment requirements, retention needs, and the customer's existing triage workflow. I would also validate deployment ownership, access controls, expected alert volume, and success metrics. This ensures the integration is operationally useful rather than simply technically possible.
I would first clarify the underlying concern rather than immediately countering it. Then I would use evidence such as architecture details, a relevant demonstration, documentation, or a proof-of-value plan to address the concern directly. I would summarize the agreed next step and involve the appropriate internal technical stakeholder if deeper validation were needed.
I prioritize based on deal stage, technical risk, customer impact, revenue potential, and time-sensitive commitments. I maintain transparent expectations with account executives, use repeatable discovery and demo assets where appropriate, and escalate blockers early. This approach protects critical opportunities while ensuring each customer receives an organized technical experience.
About this role.
What We Do:
Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.
Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers’ protection.
Huntress now secures more than 6M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.
Reports to: Manager, Sales Engineering
Location: Remote US
Compensation Range: $165,000 to $175,000 OTE (base and bonus) plus equity
What We Do:
Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.
Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers’ protection.
Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 14M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.
What You’ll Do:
We’re looking to add an experienced Sales Engineer to our growing team. You’ll join a group of highly collaborative individuals who enjoy supporting our sales team by providing technical product expertise to potential customers. As a Sales Engineer at Huntress, you will be responsible for providing technical first impressions of our product platform by delving into the details of our products and offering insightful guidance on how to enhance our customers’ security posture.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with customers to help increase their security posture
- Review and highlight potential security problems to customers’ technical teams while positioning Huntress as a solution
- Work collaboratively with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Engineering on voicing customer needs
- Spot opportunities for improvement in a fast-moving environment
- Ability to travel ~25% of the time to meet with customers
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with malware, threat intelligence, and/or sandbox analysis
- Experience with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
- Experience building and implementing Security Programs
- Familiarity with tools such as RMMs and PSAs
- Familiarity with working with SIEM tools like Elastic, Splunk, etc.
What You Bring To The Team:
- Preference given to candidates located in the Central time zones
- 4+ years of experience in a sales engineering or similar role
- Experience in the cybersecurity industry and familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks
- Experience working with or within MSPs or with VARs
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to a variety of external audiences, including C-level executives
- Effective time management and organizational skills
What We Offer:
- 100% remote work environment – since our founding in 2015
- Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
- 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
- Life and Disability insurance plans
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
- Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
- $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
- Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.
Huntress uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, including resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process, but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights.
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Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.
Huntress uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, including resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process, but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights.
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