Senior Sales Engineer

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on Checkly and the monitoring space, helping drive the Monitoring as Code revolution and solve customer problems.
• Work with valuable customers across pre-sales and post-sales.
• Assist prospects with technical evaluations, from the first demo through successful implementation, and own the process.
• Speak directly with customers and share learnings with Product and Engineering to help shape Checkly.
• Improve technical documentation, processes, and policies.
• Participate in Customer Support onboarding and provide support when needed.

Requirements

• Strong technical skills for reading, writing, and debugging code; JavaScript and Node.js preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Solutions, or Forward Deployed Engineering.
• Experience at developer-tools SaaS companies.
• Ability to use AI tools such as Claude Code and Codex to accelerate customer-facing work, including prospect research, tailored demo code, and proof-of-concept repositories.
• Ability to work autonomously and stay self-motivated in a remote-first environment.
• Empathy, curiosity, and a customer-focused mindset.
• Proactive, ownership-oriented approach to building long-term customer partnerships.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Located in Europe within UTC+1 or UTC+2 time zones.

Nice-to-haves

• Background in observability, monitoring, or testing.

Compensation & Benefits

• 70% base salary and 30% commission split.
• €115k–€140k OTE for markets similar in cost to Spain, Poland, and Portugal.
• €127k–€150k OTE for markets similar in cost to the United Kingdom and Germany.
• Stock options.
• 27 days of paid vacation.
• Paid sick leave.
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Annual company on-site.
• Employment and contractor options.