Sales Engineer (Rome)

Cynet is looking for a technically strong and customer-focused Sales Engineer to join our team in Rome.

The ideal candidate will combine strong cybersecurity and pre-sales capabilities with excellent technicl documentation and compliance-mapping skills.

In addition to supporting customers and partners throughout the technical sales cycle, this role will help organizations operating in regulated environments understand how Cynet’s cybersecurity capabilities can support their security and compliance requirements.

You will work closely with Sales, customers, partners, Security teams, Product, R&D, and other internal stakeholders to translate technical capabilities into clear business, security, and regulatory outcomes.

At Cynet, we strongly believe in a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and shared accountability. The successful candidate will be expected to actively contribute to the broader Sales Engineering team, share knowledge and best practices, support colleagues across territories when needed, and work with a One Team mindset to achieve common goals.

This is not a legal or compliance officer position. The role requires the ability to understand cybersecurity regulations and frameworks and translate their technical security requirements into Cynet capabilities, configurations, controls, and evidence.

Compensation

The annual gross salary range for this position is €60,000-70,000 (base + variable). Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including location, level of seniority and skills.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Sales Engineering & Technical Pre-Sales

• Partner with Account Executives and channel partners throughout the sales cycle.
• Conduct technical discovery sessions to understand customer infrastructure, security architecture, operational challenges, and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, and Proof of Value engagements.
• Demonstrate Cynet capabilities across endpoint security, detection and response, automated investigation and remediation, security monitoring, and MDR services.
• Design proposed architectures and deployment models based on customer environments and security requirements.
• Support technical evaluations and competitive discussions.
• Respond to technical objections and clearly articulate Cynet’s technical differentiation and security value.
• Support customers and partners during Proof of Concept / Proof of Value activities and document technical outcomes.
• Analyze and support RFPs, RFQs, and public/private tenders.
• Work with the following regulations, standards, and frameworks: GDPR, NIS2, DORA, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and other relevant cybersecurity frameworks and customer-specific control requirements.