Senior Sales Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to competitive pay structure, significant technical challenges, and influence on business outcomes.
- Potential for high earnings with commissions and equity
- Engagement with major enterprise clients
- Technical challenge within networking solutions
Pros
- Attractive compensation package with equity benefits
- Broad exposure to enterprise-level solutions and clients
- Strong emphasis on personal and professional growth
Cons
- Travel requirements may be demanding
- Complex technical landscape requiring continuous learning
- High performance expectations in a competitive environment
Who it's for
Senior-level • On-site with travel to clients
Good fit
- Senior sales engineers with a strong technical background
- Candidates eager to deliver tailored technology solutions
- Individuals who thrive in dynamic, client-facing environments
Not recommended for
- Newcomers to sales engineering
- Those looking for a 100% remote job
- Individuals who prefer not to engage with client communication
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About Us
Selector is Series B funded Silicon Valley startup that has built the leading operational intelligence platform for digital infrastructure. By adopting an AI/ML-based analytics approach, the platform provides actionable multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud, and application operators. It enables operations teams to meet their KPIs through seamless collaboration, search-driven conversational user experience, and automated data engineering pipelines.
Our solutions are used by leading Banking, Telecoms, Media Providers, Retail, and Professional Sports organizations across the world. Our novel approach and rapidly expanding footprint put us in the unique position for continued growth to become a category leader. To fuel our growth, we are seeking passionate, high-energy, results-oriented individuals to join our team.
Our mission is to deliver world-class solutions on behalf of the large enterprise. Supported by leading investors, Selector is uniquely positioned to deliver a world-class solution to address large enterprise requirements across the globe.
Responsibilities
- Deliver technical presentations to demonstrate Selector Software’s usable AIOps analytics solution capabilities to prospects and customers using strong understanding of application and network protocols
- Work jointly with the sales to understand business challenges of the prospect and how Selector AI be leveraged to improve business continuity and reduce key outage related metrics (MTTD, MTTI, MTTR).
- Scope and architect customer deployments of the SelectorAI platform and solutions building to solve critical customer issues
- Lead customer POVs to show value and outcomes of the AIOps solution leveraging SelectorAI platform by understanding various network and monitoring protocols such as SNMP, BGP, Syslog, Rest APIs, telemetry (gNMI), and other tools which would interop with the SelectorAI platform.
- Collaborate with customer operations teams to understand workflows and challenges to learn how to best integrate the Selector AI platform
- Provide post-sales technical support (training, deployment, support, etc.) in collaboration with the Selector Customer Success team.
- Research technical topics such as needed for customer engagements and explore technical topics impacting the industry to grow as an industry leader
- Build and maintain technical and trusted advisory relationships with customers and peers.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of networking and network related protocols (MPLS, BGP, Traffic Engineering, IGPs, SDWAN, Wireless, etc.)
- Experience delivering technical outcomes to Fortune 500 companies
- Must be able to travel for in-person customer visits (1-3x per month)
- 5 years experience in a pre-sales technical role in networking or application technology domain
- Familiarity with infrastructure and application monitoring a strong bonus (e.g. hypervisors, REST APIs, etc.)
Compensation
- This is a quota-carrying position, with a mix of base salary and commissions
- Selector Software offers competitive compensation commensurate with experience and capability, along with an excellent benefits package, to qualified Candidates.
- The total compensation package for this position also includes equity, medical benefits, 401(k) eligibility, vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
