Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in 2013, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform protecting nearly 10,000 organizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI. The Darktrace Active AI Security Platform™ delivers a proactive approach to cyber resilience to secure the business across the entire digital estate – from network to cloud to email. Breakthrough innovations from our R&D teams have resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform and services are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world. To learn more, visit http://www.darktrace.com.
Job Description:
Customer Success Engineer
About the job
Founded by mathematicians and cyber defense experts in 2013, Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security AI, delivering complete AI-powered solutions in its mission to free the world of cyber disruption. We protect more than 9,000 customers from the world’s most complex threats, including ransomware, cloud, and SaaS attacks.
Our roots lie deep in innovation. The Darktrace AI Research Centre based in our Cambridge, UK headquarters, has conducted research establishing new thresholds in cyber security, with technology innovations backed by over 130 patents and pending applications.
For more information on our cutting-edge technology, visit darktrace.com.
The Customer Success Engineer (CSE) is a member of the Customer Experience (CX) team at Darktrace. The CSE team is focused on providing existing Darktrace customers with technical product solutions. Responsibilities in this pursuit range and include supporting the adoption of the Darktrace platform and services within the customer environment; providing deployment health and value interventions; and identifying additional or new use cases for Darktrace usage within the customer environment, among other value-adding endeavors.
Darktrace is currently expanding the CSE team to accommodate a rapidly growing customer base and accelerating revenue. This role is a dynamic and varied customer focused technical management position. This position is a critical customer-facing technical role within the Darktrace CX organization which requires thorough knowledge of cybersecurity and the Darktrace product suite, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with a variety of customer stakeholders. A CSE will need to liaise internally with Darktrace Customer Success Managers, Renewals Managers, Analysts, Operations Engineers, and Sales members to ensure customer needs are met, and to sustain consistent renewal and growth of customer accounts.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Product & Industry Knowledge: Act as a Darktrace and security expert and consultant to customers.
Develop and maintain excellent, hands-on knowledge of the Darktrace solution, with the expectations of self-sufficiency and proficiency across all coverage areas of the Darktrace platform
Conduct deployment discovery and architecture design reviews for existing customers to ensure maximum value delivery across Network, Email, and Cloud deployments
Work towards and maintain relevant Darktrace certifications
Have and use industry knowledge and experience to provide consultative guidance to customers on cybersecurity priorities and initiatives
Understand and engage with the evolving cybersecurity landscape, and work towards/ maintain relevant external certifications on this knowledge as relevant
Value Discovery and Delivery, and Strategic Thinking: Work with customers to learn their priorities and map to technical solutions.
Develop and refine discovery techniques to work with customer contacts of various personas, from IT, Cloud, and Security administrators to C-Suite executives
Document and utilize the values statements and needs of Darktrace customers
Have a mindset of taking ownership over your quota number and KPIs to improve customer deployments and value delivery, and ultimately retention and expansion
Communication and Organization: Work with customers, peers, and stakeholders efficiently and reliably
Utilize strong, respectful communication to form productive relationships with customers, partners, peers, and cross-functional internal teams
Demonstrate confident presentation skills
Maintain organized and timely documentation, account administration, and updates of internal systems
Be mentored by and in turn provide mentorship to members of the CSE team on areas of particular expertise
Qualifications & Experience
2+ years of experience in a relevant role, ideally with the cybersecurity industry (i.e: Customer Success Engineering, Technical Account Management, etc)
Strong knowledge of both on-premise and cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience within the cyber security industry preferred
Additional experience in one or more of the following areas also preferred: Email Security; Incident Response; Cloud Security Architecture
Confident, polished communicator with a proven ability to build lasting, critical business relationships
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience in a relevant role in cybersecurity
- Strong knowledge of both on-premise and cloud networking
- Experience in Customer Success Engineering or Technical Account Management
- Additional experience in Email Security, Incident Response, or Cloud Security Architecture
Darktrace Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Darktrace and has not been reviewed or approved by Darktrace.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is considered strong in the U.S., with employer-paid medical, dental, and vision noted alongside good networks. Plan quality stands out as a core strength of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off typically includes around 20–21 days of PTO plus paid holidays, with mentions of an additional birthday day. Parental and family leave are also described as part of the offering.
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Affordable Benefits — Employer-paid health coverage for employees—often extended to dependents—reduces premium costs. This makes core medical benefits more financially accessible.
Darktrace Insights
What We Do
Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 5,500 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. The company’s fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company has 1,500 employees and over 30 offices worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ for 2021.
