Sales Engineer

Sales Engineer – Network & Observability Solutions

Location: Chicago Area | 100% Remote | 50% Travel (Central Region)

We are hiring a Sales Engineer to support our growing enterprise sales team. This role is ideal for an ambitious and innovative pre-sales professional with strong networking fundamentals, excellent presentation skills, and experience selling technology solutions.

You will act as the technical expert in the sales process—owning demos, proof of concepts, and solution design—while working closely with Account Managers and Sales Leadership to win new business.

• Partner with Account Managers and Sales Directors to build winning technical and sales strategies
• Lead discovery to understand customer business and technical challenges
• Design and present technical solutions aligned to customer needs
• Deliver product demonstrations, Proof of Concepts, and competitive bake-offs
• Run onsite and remote presentations, whiteboard sessions, and technical workshops
• Own all technical activity in the sales cycle, including forecasting support
• Build strong relationships across customer IT teams
• Identify upsell and expansion opportunities
• Travel up to 50% within the Central region

• 5+ years of pre-sales engineering or technical sales experience
• Strong background in network engineering and/or network observability
• Experience selling software and/or hardware from a vendor perspective
• Comfortable working with enterprise or commercial customers
• Excellent presentation, communication, and customer-facing skills

• Networking:
  Routing, Switching, TCP/IP, BGP, Net Flow, SNMP
• Packet-switched networks, Layer 4–7
• Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Network Observability / Service Assurance
• Packet analysis tools (Wireshark, Sniffer)
• LAN/WAN (MPLS, Frame, ATM)
• Network Security concepts
• Cloud & Virtualization: AWS, VMware, public/private cloud

• CCNA, CCNP, CCIE certifications
• Experience with SDN/NFV
• Experience with RFI/RFP responses
• Security audit exposure
• Formal sales or pre-sales training

• High-impact role supporting enterprise customers
• Competitive compensation and uncapped earning potential
• 100% remote flexibility
• Work with cutting-edge networking and observability technologies
• Strong collaboration between sales and technical teams

If you’re passionate about networking, observability, and helping customers solve complex technical challenges, we’d love to hear from you.