Senior Sales Engineer, Strategic Accounts

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About the role

  • Senior Sales Engineer supporting strategic accounts at Docker. Leading technical discovery and influencing AI governance and security solutions in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead deep technical discovery across Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and AI/ML teams to understand:
  • AI governance requirements
  • Software supply chain risk posture
  • Regulatory and compliance drivers (e.g., NIST AI Risk Management Framework, EU AI Act.)
  • Secure development lifecycle requirements
  • Shape technical requirements early in the sales cycle to align customer outcomes with Docker’s differentiated value in AI governance, container security, and software supply chain integrity.
  • Design, position, and execute structured PoCs/PoVs focused on:
  • Policy enforcement
  • Image and artifact integrity
  • SBOM visibility
  • AI workload governance controls
  • Secure build pipelines
  • Define clear success criteria, evaluation frameworks, and executive-ready value summaries.
  • Influence decision-making through demos, workshops, architecture reviews, and technical executive briefings.
  • Translate complex AI security and governance capabilities into clear business value narratives for CISOs, Heads of Platform Engineering, and AI leaders.
  • Establish credibility as a trusted advisor on:
  • Responsible AI development practices
  • Secure AI model lifecycle management
  • Software supply chain integrity
  • Container and artifact security
  • DevSecOps best practices
  • Guide customers in implementing governance controls across AI-enabled SDLC workflows.
  • Provide architectural guidance for:
  • Agentic AI development environments
  • Policy-as-code enforcement
  • Identity and access governance for AI workloads
  • Act as a subject matter expert on secure software supply chain and AI security trends in customer-facing engagements.
  • Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions across Security, DevOps, Platform, and AI teams.
  • Establish credibility as a trusted advisor through technical thought leadership, architectural guidance, and industry best practices.
  • Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover cross-sell and expansion opportunities.
  • Maintain engagement beyond initial sale ensuring outcomes are realized and leveraging insights to support future sales motions.
  • Advocate for customer needs with Product and Engineering, providing clear, actionable feedback informed by field experience.
  • Coordinate with Post Sales and Support resources to ensure continuity across the customer lifecycle.
  • Develop reusable technical assets (workshops, demos, reference architectures, enablement content) to scale impact across accounts.
  • Actively support competitive sales motions by identifying differentiation and influencing evaluation criteria throughout the sales cycle.
  • Partner with Sales to develop technical win strategies for strategic and competitive accounts.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales.
  • Strong experience running competitive PoCs/PoVs with clearly defined success and exit criteria.
  • Ability to engage credibly with senior technical and business stakeholders.
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
  • Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies strongly preferred.
  • Development, Agentic AI dev, Software Development Lifecycle and/or Software Supply Chain experience strongly preferred.
  • Must be fluent in English
  • Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites up to 25%.

Benefits

  • Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
  • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
  • Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
  • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
  • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
  • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
  • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
  • Docker Swag
  • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
  • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$195,200 - $244,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformSDLC

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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