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Senior Principal Sales Engineer

United States of America - Illinois - RemoteFull-time$256k2026-10-05 → 2026-11-11

Core

Provide technical pre-sales support, deliver product demonstrations, and resolve technical objections for complex enterprise security and messaging opportunities.

Role type

Senior Principal Sales Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Builds

Mimecast security and messaging services for enterprise customers and reseller partners

Domain

Cybersecurity, Email Security, Data Governance

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Technical pre-sales for security/messaging, consultative selling of complex services, networking and security technologies, email security/anti-malware/archiving platforms, Exchange and Microsoft 365 migrations, governance/compliance/use cases (archiving, retention, e-discovery), insider risk management, SaaS solutions, indirect sales environments

Preferred skills

Project management, working with technology partners

Responsibilities

Provide technical pre-sales support across direct and reseller partner opportunities, engage technical stakeholders to explain services and address objections, deliver product demonstrations to technical and business audiences, prepare formal RFP and security questionnaire responses, partner with sales colleagues throughout the opportunity lifecycle, support complex solutions and oversee pre-sales proofs of concept, train sales teams on products, represent company at regional marketing events

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC