Senior Sales Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-13
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Sales
SaaS Sales, Technical Sales
Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from.
Why Join the Drata Team?At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for:
Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go.
Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them.
A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level.
Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience.
A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on Linked In for company news, employee stories, and career updates.
We are looking for a seasoned, hardworking, smart and over achieving Senior Sales Engineer with proven experience and a passion for selling technology solutions to senior executives. You will be responsible for selling into new prospects as well as farming back into existing customers to ensure high renewal and customer satisfaction levels. Measures of success include new customer acquisition rates, up-selling, cross-selling, customer satisfaction and contribution to overall sales team and business success.
This is a hybrid role with the expectation of working in the London office 1-2 days per week.
What you'll do:Partner with sales executives to plan, prepare and execute on strategic deals in sales cycles
Create a process from the ground-up to streamline the communication and increase efficiencies
Manage all technical aspects of RFP / RFI responses
Effectively communicate client needs to the R&D teams for future product enhancements
Focus on shortening the sales cycles while providing technical support on proof of concepts without over complicating the buyer's journey.
Support sales executives with solution selling into prospect account base
Successfully match customer pain/requirements to proposed solutions
Create and deliver powerful presentations and demos that clearly communicate the uniqueness of the value proposition
Collect and document competitive intelligence
Model the financial business case associated with each sales opportunity
5+ years of experience as a Sales/Solutions Engineer preferably in the SaaS space.
Preferred knowledge of cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, etc
Experience building out proof of concepts
Proven track record selling/supporting complex enterprise solutions
Ability to forge strong, long-lasting relationships with senior executives
Ability to creatively explain and present complex concepts in an easy to understand manner
Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent presentation and creativity skills
At Drata, our people are…
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