Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Sales Engineer: $174K median posted pay.
From 125 salary bands employers posted on 442 open sales engineer roles in sales. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 181 | $188K | — |
| Principal | 11 | — (5 of 8 bands) | — |
| Mid | 5 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
| Intern | 3 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 3 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Staff | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Zscaler | 48 | — |
| Jci | 36 | — |
| Axon | 18 | — |
| Datadog | 15 | — |
| Johnson Controls | 15 | — |
| Applied | 14 | — |
| Horizon3 AI | 11 | — |
| Zendesk | 9 | — |
| Rubrik Job Board | 9 | — |
| Carrier | 9 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open sales engineer roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Solutions Engineering | 442 | — |
| Cybersecurity | 95 | — |
| Product Demonstrations | 87 | — |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 80 | — |
| Machine Learning | 71 | — |
| Python | 66 | — |
| Linux Administration | 44 | — |
| Help Desk Support | 44 | — |
| JavaScript | 40 | — |
| Customer Service | 40 | — |
Where the work is
34% of these roles are remote.
- Remote34%149 roles
- Hybrid3%15 roles
- On site45%197 roles
- Not stated18%81 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 442 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 125 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Sales Engineer (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in sales, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.