Staff Solutions Engineer ( MSSP )

SentinelOne
Germany
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at experienced technical professionals with sales engineering or solutions architecture backgrounds who can scale partner programs and manage complex integrations.

Best fit for

  • Individuals with deep cloud security expertise and experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
    — “Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. Azure a plus”
  • Professionals who excel in translating technical capabilities into commercial outcomes for enterprise clients.
    — “translating technical roadmaps into commercial outcomes”

Things to consider

  • The role demands up to 50% travel, which may be a significant logistical commitment.
    — “Willingness to travel up to 50%”
  • Fluency in both German and English is mandatory, which may limit candidates without strong language skills.
    — “Fluent German and English language”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in developing multi-phase technical architecture roadmaps for enterprise or MSSP environments.
    — “designing and delivering multi-phase technical architecture roadmaps”
  • Emphasize your ability to mentor and lead other SEs in technical partner programs.
    — “mentoring other SEs”
  • Showcase your ability to present technical and commercial roadmaps to C-level executives.
    — “presenting and defending technical and commercial roadmaps”
  • Demonstrate hands-on experience in SOC, MSSP, or MDR environments to align with the role’s technical focus.
    — “previous experience as a practitioner at a MSSP, MSP, MDR, IR partner or in a SOC”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • driving adoption
  • building strong partner relationships
  • evangelizing solutions
Typical background
15+ years in field8+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Professional Services experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales EngineeringSolutions ArchitectureTechnical TrainingPartner ManagementDemonstration

Preferred

AICybersecurity

Stack & domain

CybersecurityAI

About the role

Original posting from SentinelOne

Our Purpose

At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.

About Us

SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.

Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.

What Are We Looking For?

We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.

As a Staff Solutions Engineer, you will be tasked with driving adoption, building strong partner relationships, and evangelizing our solutions across the region. You will focus on enabling the MSSP ecosystem, positioning and integrating SentinelOne's technology within partner technical offerings, selling to the managed partner base, conducting demos, delivering technical training, Proof of Values, assisting partners with pre and post sales activities, and assisting with escalations. Your role will be responsible for managing our MSSP partners, while cultivating long-term relationships with partners, and the SentinelOne field and Product/Engineering teams.

What will you do?

Primary responsibilities include:

Work with the Managed partner team to identify and qualify partnership opportunities, identify key partner technical objections, competition, and develop strategies to resolve technical blockers and scale the partner sales business

Bring feedback from partners and end customers to product management to improve the SentinelOne's solution

Drive follow-ups with partner resources to consistently deliver on messaging how SentinelOne adds value to the partner and their customers.

Plan and create go-to-market initiatives and offerings with SentinelOne partners

Develop and execute technical training plans for partners.

Own the technical relationship with SentinelOne's partners, and the coordination of additional technical resources.

Deliver demonstrations and work hands-on with partners to demonstrate SentinelOne's value in the partner's environment or solutions.

What skills and knowledge should you bring?

Ideal candidates will have:

15+ Years in field, 8+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Professional Services experience

Proven track record of scaling managed partner technical programs at a strategic level, including mentoring other SEs

Proven experience designing and delivering multi-phase technical architecture roadmaps for enterprise, MSSP, or MSP environments, including SKU sequencing and margin/commercial modeling

Strong track record operating at the CTO/VP Engineering level with partners or customers, translating technical roadmaps into commercial outcomes

Strong background building relationships with internal sales, product, and executive leadership teams

Experience presenting and defending technical and commercial roadmaps and sales values presentations to varying audiences from architects to C-level executives.

Technical experience/skills for the successful candidate:

Previous experience as a practitioner at a MSSP, MSP, MDR, IR partner or in a SOC.

Familiarity with SIEM or other data lake solutions

A strong understanding of cybersecurity, identity security and endpoint security solutions is ideal for success in this role or similar in tech/software industry.

Experience working with cloud computing environments (e.g. technical sales, devops, security, sales engineering or similar role)

Experience in and understanding of cloud deployments, especially as relates to security and compliance

Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. Azure a plus

Familiarity with modern cloud environments, e.g. containerized workloads, serverless computing, and microservices architectures

Experience working with CSPs, channel, MSP/MSSPs, GSIs, or alliances partners.

Ability to quickly learn, adapt, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies and solutions

Fluent German and English language

Willingness to travel up to 50%

Why SentinelOne?

AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.

We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:

Equity & Rewards

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Time Off & Wellbeing

Competitive leave benefits

Gender-neutral parental leave

Insurance & Financial Security

Medical and insurance benefits

Disability insurance

Accident insurance

Retirement plan

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work Perks & Flexibility

Global home office allowance

Mobile phone reimbursement

Work-from-home & internet allowance

SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles. 

Source: SentinelOne careers

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