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:
The Strategic Solutions Engineer (SE) plays a crucial role in our team. As a seasoned professional, you will work independently with minimal oversight, providing creative and effective solutions to immediate problems. You will advise others on complex issues, contributing to company objectives and achieving goals in innovative ways. Your understanding of the wider business and ability to network will be essential for success.
This role offers fast-paced personal growth and career advancement as we expand our technical team in response to our growing customer base. We value experience in customer-facing technical roles and provide extensive training to build new skills. Enthusiastic individuals with a strong team mindset, ready to make an impact in this high-growth environment, are encouraged to apply.
This is an opportunity to join a team where you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations solve real‑world challenges with creativity and confidence. Every day brings new variety, from strategic problem‑solving to hands‑on technical discovery. This is a role that offers responsibility, meaningful growth, and engaging challenges
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Considered a trusted advisor of prospects, and customers.
- Ability to leverage great relationships to identify and drive commercial opportunities.
- Reliable member of the team to provide technical expertise when responding to RFPs.
- Guiding, and scoping POVs to maximizing POV value and minimizing competitor threat.
- Ability to scope very complex, large and/or novel deployments.
- Have successful creation and use of M1 and M2 metrics.
- Highly integrated with POD, across deals, qualification pipeline.
- Contributes to wider technical initiatives or projects outside of the day-to-day S role
- Transfer knowledge, mentor and peers, and add to knowledge bases
- Be able to present as a technical leader in engagements as well as support marketing events/functions, executive dinners, conferences and roadshows accordingly.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 5+ years in a software sales engineering role; experience in cybersecurity is preferred.
- Strong competitor knowledge and excellent skills at de-positioning.
- Strong knowledge in both on-premises and cloud networking and technologies.
- Advanced used of MEDDPPIC.
- Passion for staying updated with the latest cybersecurity trends and a willingness to continuously develop your skillset.
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.
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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.
