Senior Sales Engineer, Public Sector - Germany

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.

We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Sales Engineer to join our Public Sector Sales Engineering team in Germany. Based anywhere in Germany and reporting to the Sales Engineering Manager, working in a remote environment your responsibilities include:

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Operate as a true “two-in-a-box” team with the Account Executive (AE): jointly build and execute the account plan and customer engagement strategy (stakeholders, use cases, messaging, mutual action plan), ensuring tight alignment from discovery through close

Lead high-impact customer engagements: run discovery, workshops, demos, and architecture sessions; translate requirements into secure Network Security & Cloud solution designs and clearly articulate measurable outcomes (risk reduction, compliance, efficiency)

Drive technical win plans and proof points: create and execute the technical strategy for opportunities (incl. PoCs/pilots when needed), define success criteria, coordinate internal resources, and guide deals to clear customer-aligned decisions

Who You Are (Success Profile)

You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. You adapt to what’s needed, navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

You are a problem-solver. You seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.

You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for