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The conversation has shifted from backup to cyber resilience: ransomware recovery, identity, data security posture, safe AI. They need a technical partner who understands both the technology and what's at stake. As a Senior Sales Engineer, you are that partner. You will be the primary technical voice for Rubrik's enterprise, public-sector and commercial customers throughout Melbourne, helping them understand their options, build confidence in a solution, and confirm that what we propose works in their environment. You'll work closely with our regional sales team, with the customer's success as the measure of a good outcome.\nAbout the position:\nProvides technical leadership and direction to customers and internal staff in the development of fully integrated technology solutions in support of pre-sales activities in the assigned market.\nLeads the analysis, design and development of target-state solutions spanning on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud, mapping Rubrik into the customer's reference architecture, integration landscape and security posture, and whiteboards that target state live.\nDemonstrates technical leadership and subject matter expertise across enterprise data protection, cyber recovery, identity resilience, cloud-native and SaaS workload protection, and data security posture management.\nWorks fluently across modern cloud environments.\nTranslating an environment discovery into a solution that is both technically accurate and commercially sound.\nActs as technical expert and consultant to develop and propose solutions that meet the technology and business requirements of assigned customers.\nMakes technical and sales presentations to customers' technical staff and senior management, and holds the room with executive audiences, reading the room and adjusting altitude as it changes.\nScopes and runs proofs of concept tightly against the customer's decision criteria, with explicit success and exit criteria.\nServes as a trusted technology advisor to customers and as an internal resource on technical issues or specific business applications within the assigned market segment.\nSuccessfully builds relationships with the account team, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives. Builds and coaches customer champions who can carry our story internally when we are not in the room.\nQualifies sales opportunities with MEDDPIC discipline.\nAbout you:\n5+ years of sales engineering experience, or customer-facing consulting experience, with large enterprise clients, preferably in a software, cloud or data centre environment.\nGenuine solution or architecture depth. You have designed and defended technical architectures, not just configured products.\nMulti-cloud and SaaS fluency across AWS, Azure or GCP as a baseline. Cloud and security certifications are well regarded.\nA track record of winning competitive evaluations and displacing incumbents.\nTeam-first and generous with knowledge, composed under pressure, creates momentum rather than waiting for it, and recovers fast from a lost deal or a POC setback.\nIntegrity. You do the right thing by the customer and the team.\nBachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.\nNice to have:\nExposure across data protection, backup and disaster recovery, cyber recovery, identity and data security posture, with real depth in at least one pillar, and hands-on enough to lead a proof of concept end to end.\nDemonstrable value-selling experience with a named sales methodology, and comfort building a TCO and business cases.\nCredibility with security buyers. For example, you can hold a CISO conversation on cyber resilience.\nJoin Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation\nRubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. \nLinkedin | X (formerly Twitter) | Instagram | Rubrik.com\nInclusion @ Rubrik\nAt Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.\nOur goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.\nOur inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:\nOur Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.\n\nOur Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.\n\nOur Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled\nRubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.\nRubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. \nFederal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at  if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. 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