--- title: 'Senior Sales Engineer at Sift' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-sales-engineer-sift-united-kingdom-4dt02et2xs19' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-10' --- # Senior Sales Engineer at Sift - **Company:** Sift - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sift/54e93c3f-db24-4f9a-b1ed-16962f4d4105 ## Job description ## About the role Sift is looking for an experienced Senior Sales Engineer to help enterprise and mid-market customers evaluate and adopt our Digital Trust platform. In this role, you will partner closely with Enterprise Account Executives to lead the technical side of complex sales cycles, from discovery and solution design through solution presentations, evaluations, and technical validation. You will work with some of the world’s largest and fastest-growing digital businesses to understand their fraud, risk, and trust challenges, translate those challenges into solution strategies, and show how Sift can deliver measurable business value. You will engage both technical buyers and executive stakeholders, helping prospects move from technical interest to buying confidence. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys combining technical depth, customer-facing communication, and commercial thinking. ## About the team Our Sales Engineering team is made up of creative, technical problem solvers who partner with prospects to understand complex digital trust challenges and design practical, high-value solutions. We work cross-functionally across Sales, Product, Marketing, and Customer teams, and we play an important role in shaping how Sift goes to market. Senior Sales Engineers at Sift are trusted advisors internally and externally. They bring the voice of the customer into the business, influence product direction through market feedback, and help raise the bar for how we sell, position, and deliver value. ## What you'll do - Partner with Enterprise Account Executives to drive complex technical sales cycles with strategic accounts - Lead technical discovery and workshops to understand a prospect’s architecture, workflows, fraud challenges, and business goals - Design and deliver compelling solution presentations and solution narratives tailored to both technical and business audiences - Guide prospects through technical validation, integrations, and proof of value engagements - Translate complex product capabilities into clear customer outcomes and measurable business value - Build credibility with engineers, fraud leaders, operations teams, and executive stakeholders - Surface market feedback and customer requirements to help influence Sift’s product roadmap - Improve internal tooling, knowledge sharing, and repeatable presales processes that make the broader go-to-market team more effective What success looks like In this role, you will: - Earn trust quickly with both technical teams and executive buyers - Turn ambiguous customer problems into clear technical solution strategies - Help prospects move faster through evaluation by making Sift easy to understand, validate, and buy - Raise the quality and consistency of technical selling across the team - Bring actionable market insight back into the business to improve product and positioning ## What we're looking for Must-haves - 5+ years of experience in a Sales Engineer customer-facing technical role - Experience supporting complex enterprise SaaS sales cycles - Strong technical foundation, ideally including APIs, integrations, and data-driven or analytics-oriented platforms - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and business concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences - Ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholders and concurrent opportunities - Comfortable using Python or a similar language for demonstrating API usage - Self-starter mindset with strong judgment, curiosity, and a bias toward action Nice-to-haves - Experience in fraud, payments, risk, trust & safety, or adjacent problem spaces - Experience running POVs, pilots, or technical evaluations for AI/ML-driven products - Familiarity with applied machine learning concepts and an interest in emerging AI trends - Experience building internal automations, tools, or workflows using AI tools or agents You may be a strong fit if you are - Consultative in how you engage customers whilst still being a natural seller at heart, commercially driven, motivated by winning deals and comfortable owning the outcome with the Account Executive, not just the technical evaluation - Comfortable moving between technical depth and executive value conversations - Curious, collaborative, and resourceful in ambiguous situations - Motivated by helping customers solve meaningful, high-stakes problems - Energized by building, not just supporting, a strong go-to-market motion ## Why join Sift - Work on high-impact problems at the intersection of fraud prevention, digital trust, and machine learning - Partner with leading enterprise brands across a wide range of industries - Influence not just deals, but also product direction, technical strategy, and how Sift scales its presales motion - Join a team that values technical rigor, customer empathy, and practical execution Let’s build it together: At Sift, we are intentionally building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity drives innovation, equity is a fundamental right, and inclusion is a basic human need. We envision a place where all Sifties feel secure sharing their authentic selves and diverse experiences with their teams, their customers, and their community – ultimately using this empowerment and authenticity to build trust and create a safer Internet. This document provides transparency around how Sift handles the personal data of job applicants: https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy A little about us: Sift is the AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses. Our deep investments in machine learning and user identity, a data network scoring 1 trillion events per year, and a commitment to long-term customer success empower more than 700 customers to grow fearlessly. Global brands rely on Sift to unlock growth and deliver seamless consumer experiences. Visit us at [sift.com](http://sift.com) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=XHeK0v8NcNrEkwcDe8QxwpZeCkdQqNyKlni83U-CUmrprdKXWpVlYOAbVzwe2OmlwIUN-q4HXk4hf_dazpHx2NMM1CW_SYj740q9mxXNQI4=). ## About Sift ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sift is an AI-powered fraud prevention platform that provides digital trust and safety solutions for global businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (late-stage, $156.6M total funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Jason Tan ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Digital fraud prevention, risk-based authentication, cybersecurity - **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise, and mid-market digital businesses (e.g., e-commerce, fintech, on-demand services) - **Mission / purpose**: To build a safer internet by helping companies stop fraud fast and grow revenue fearlessly ## Products & Services - **[Sift AI-Powered Fraud Platform](https://sift.com)**: SaaS platform that uses machine learning and a global data network of 1 trillion annual events to detect and prevent account takeover, payment fraud, and first-party abuse in real time. Includes risk-based authentication, chargeback protection, and identity trust tools. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $65.0M (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $156.6M across 8 rounds (LinkedIn) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Union Square Ventures (Albert Wenger serves on the board); customers include DoorDash, Yelp, Poshmark, Harry’s, Hertz, Patreon - **Growth Signals**: - Protects 700+ global brands and processes events from 34,000+ sites and apps - Maintained #1 position across all Fraud Prevention categories in G2’s Fall 2025 Reports - 40+ granted or allowed U.S. patents - Released “Advanced Fraud Investigation Tooling” in Fall ’25 release ## Competitive Advantages - **Data network effect**: Over 1 trillion annual events feed Sift’s machine learning models, improving accuracy and speed as the network grows - **AI-first platform**: Real-time decisioning at scale with automated rulesets and machine learning - **Established brand trust**: 700+ enterprise customers, long-tenured relationships with market leaders - **Patent portfolio**: 40+ patents covering fraud detection, identity trust, and risk-based authentication ## Strategic Focus - **Digital trust & safety**: Deepening identity trust capabilities and simplifying fraud management for lean teams - **Global expansion**: Scaling the data network and adding support for new regions and fraud types - **Product innovation**: Investing in advanced investigation tooling, user-centric insights, and automation to help customers turn risk into revenue ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include “Ever Better,” “Win as One Team,” and “Courage Over Comfort”; emphasis on candid feedback, vulnerability, and leaving your comfort zone - **Work model**: “Borderless Sift” – hybrid for Bay Area employees (flexible in-office), fully remote for others; designed to support execution excellence and belonging - **Benefits**: - Generous time off, mental health days, paid maternity/paternity leave - Employee equity, retirement savings plan, lifestyle wallet - Medical/dental/vision fully covered for individuals (affordable premiums for dependents) - Learning & development wallet, in-house group workshops, manager trainings - **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack (Ruby, Java, Snowflake, Google Cloud); teams are empowered to scale fraud prevention with agility ## Sources 1. [Sift.com – Company Overview](https://sift.com/) 2. [Sift Careers Page](https://sift.com/careers/) 3. [Sift About/Leadership Page](https://sift.com/company/) 4. [Built In – Sift Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/sift) 5. 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