Full-Time

Sales Engineer

Updated on 9/4/2026

Commvault

Commvault

1,001-5,000 employees

Data protection software and services provider

Compensation Overview

CA$135.2k - CA$182.8k/yr

+ Employee stock purchase plan

Toronto, ON, Canada

Hybrid

Must be located in the Toronto Metro Area; travel up to 50% is required.

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
Solution Engineering (1)
Required Skills
SharePoint
Computer Networking
Operating Systems
SAP Products
Oracle

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Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience in the software or storage industry, including at least 3 years of proven experience serving in a pre-sales sales engineer role.
  • Solid experience delivering, presenting, selling, and supporting assigned enterprise or commercial clients and territories.
  • Strong competitive knowledge.
  • Proven experience selling, conducting proof-of-concept engagements, and architecting data management solutions such as backup and recovery, data migration, replication, compliance, and storage resource management.
  • Experience working in a rapid-growth environment where priorities, roles, and responsibilities are continuously updated to meet market and customer demands.
  • Experience participating in and establishing teams of specialists to support customers and sales cycles to successful outcomes.
  • Basic knowledge of common software licensing practices, including cloud, perpetual, term, and maintenance licensing.
  • Specialized knowledge and demonstrated proficiency with at least one major open-systems operating system, hypervisor, or cloud platform.
  • Exposure to or knowledge of enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle, Exchange, DB2, and SharePoint.
  • Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as storage, servers, networking, cloud, and hyper-convergence.
  • Strong consultative selling skills that pair product expertise with business and industry foresight.
  • Success penetrating and managing a minimum of three major Fortune 500–1000 accounts.
  • Ability to work in an organized, procedural manner using tools such as Salesforce.com to organize processes and information.
  • Experience with sales methodologies such as MEDDIC, Target Account Selling, SPIN, Solution Selling, and Challenger.
  • Ability to work remotely and autonomously.
  • Ability to travel up to 50%.
Responsibilities
  • Work as part of the account team to formulate and produce territory plans, account strategies, and sales plans, including engaging specialist resources for accounts determined by the Sales and Sales Engineer Manager, and develop new opportunities within the assigned territory.
  • Anticipate technology trends and build positive relationships with external partners and internal departments, including sales, support, business units, product management, marketing, and development, to support sales campaigns and customer experience.
  • Call on senior-level information technology leadership and engage customers to qualify and understand technical, financial, operational, and business issues addressed by Commvault products.
  • Establish relationships with technical decision-makers within end-user accounts and drive executable Technical Account Plans for focus targets and current customers using the Commvault Target Account Selling methodology.
  • Distill pre-sales discovery into a concise message outlining the technical, business, operational, and financial inefficiencies and challenges addressed by Commvault products.
  • Collaborate on the creation and presentation of business cases to business sponsors, including C-level executives and technical partners, in support of Commvault solutions.
  • Propose and professionally demonstrate Commvault products using presentations, existing customer solutions, whiteboards, demos, pilots, and proof-of-concepts.
  • Participate in sales and regional meetings and quarterly business reviews, contributing technical leadership on topics including field marketing and qualification.
  • Provide technical expertise and enablement support for channel and alliance partners as needed.
  • Develop and maintain technical and market expertise through training, certifications, and conferences.
  • Keep senior management and relevant internal groups informed of key issues and changes that may affect business results through business reviews and Salesforce.com documentation.
  • Assist appropriate internal groups with potential product or process improvements and participate in formulating innovative solutions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with case creation and total cost of ownership modeling.

Commvault provides data protection and information management software and services that help organizations back up, recover, migrate, and govern data across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its software uses agents and components to manage backups, replication, and recovery, with licenses or subscriptions granting ongoing access plus support and training. It differentiates itself by offering an integrated suite for backup, recovery, migration, and information governance along with consulting and education for a wide range of industries, including regulated sectors. The goal is to help customers protect data, manage it efficiently, and derive maximum value from their data-management investments.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Tinton Falls, New Jersey

Founded

1996

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What believers are saying

  • July 28, 2026 subscription revenue hit $267 million, up 16%, and FCF rose 71%.
  • September 9, 2026 Active Directory Pre Recover cuts identity recovery from hours to minutes.
  • September 2, 2026 Clumio gained FedRAMP Marketplace visibility, strengthening federal sales.

What critics are saying

  • July 28, 2026 guidance implied flat sequential subscription growth around $264-$268 million.
  • April 2026 sale exploration with Goldman Sachs distracts management and freezes long-term planning.
  • August 11, 2026 critical CommServe vulnerabilities expose a trust-destroying breach path.

What makes Commvault unique

  • Commvault unifies data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery in one platform.
  • June 2026 Microsoft partnership embeds Commvault as a native Azure recovery service.
  • Cleanroom, Threat Scan, and Clumio FedRAMP broaden regulated and federal resilience coverage.

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Benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

3%
PR Newswire
Sep 9th, 2026
Commvault launches Active Directory Pre Recover for near-instant identity access during cyberattacks

Commvault has launched Active Directory Pre Recover, a solution that reduces recovery time for compromised identity infrastructure from hours to minutes. The technology creates a clean, standby copy of Active Directory in an isolated environment using Commvault's existing Cleanroom technology. When disruption occurs, organisations can fail over to this clean copy within minutes rather than waiting for full forest recovery. The solution continuously scans backups using Threat Scan to ensure the standby copy remains free of malicious content. "Commvault has already made significant progress reducing identity recovery times from weeks to hours, and now we are extending that progress toward near-real-time availability," said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, chief products officer at Commvault. The solution will be available for early access in coming months as part of Commvault's Identity Resilience portfolio.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 8th, 2026
Commvault appoints James Hayes as first Chief Public Affairs Officer

Commvault has appointed James Hayes as its first Chief Public Affairs Officer. Hayes will lead the company's government and public affairs strategy across federal, state, and international regulatory bodies. Hayes joins from IonQ and Tenable, where he led federal advocacy and cybersecurity policy. He previously headed EMC's Government Affairs Office in Washington, DC, and served on the staff of the United States Senate Appropriations Committee. The appointment comes as AI, quantum computing, and evolving cyber threats reshape the technology and policy landscape. Hayes will work to bridge public and private sectors around shared priorities, particularly in areas of emerging technology and data security. Commvault provides unified resilience solutions, combining data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery on a cloud-native, AI-enabled platform.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 4th, 2026
Commvault's AI recovery tools gain Google threat intelligence as subscription revenue hits $267M but margin guidance disappoints

Commvault integrated Google's threat intelligence into its recovery workflows on 3 August, allowing the system to automatically determine whether backed-up data is safe to restore after a cyberattack. The integration combines Mandiant's research, VirusTotal's malware data, and Google threat signals with Commvault's existing Threat Scan tool. The company reported strong subscription growth in its fiscal first quarter, with subscription revenue reaching $267 million, up 16% year over year. SaaS revenue crossed $100 million, up 39%, whilst subscription annualized recurring revenue climbed 22% to $1,054 million. However, GAAP operating margin was 8.2%, significantly below the non-GAAP margin of 22.8%. Second quarter subscription revenue guidance of $264 million to $268 million suggests flat growth. Hedge fund ownership dropped from 36 funds to 28, whilst short interest stands at 9.07% of the float.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 4th, 2026
Commvault triples Azure cloud recovery reach to 62% as subscription revenue hits $267M

Commvault expanded its Cloud Rewind platform on 18 August, tripling the number of Microsoft Azure resource types it can protect and recover after cyberattacks or outages. The update reaches 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types, though coverage for AWS and Google Cloud was not mentioned. The company reported fiscal first quarter 2027 results on 28 July, with subscription revenue rising 16% year over year to $267 million. Subscription annualised recurring revenue reached $1,054 million, up 22%, whilst SaaS revenue crossed $100 million for the first time, up 39%. Free cash flow jumped 71% to $51 million. However, guidance for second-quarter subscription revenue of $264 million to $268 million suggests flat sequential growth. Hedge fund ownership fell from 36 funds to 28 in the most recent quarter.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 3rd, 2026
Clumio wins FedRAMP Ready status as Commvault shares climb 5.3% in one month

Commvault Systems' subsidiary Clumio has achieved FedRAMP Class C Moderate Ready status and gained a listing in the FedRAMP Marketplace, marking a significant development for the company's federal-facing cyber resilience offerings. Commvault's share price has climbed 5.3% over the past month and 8.2% over the past quarter. However, the one-year total shareholder return is down 26.5%, whilst the three-year return is up 94.4%. The company's most followed valuation narrative puts fair value at $161.15 compared with the last close of $131.56, suggesting an 18.4% undervaluation. This is supported by 63% SaaS ARR growth, a 45% increase in multi-product customers, and 125% SaaS net dollar retention. However, the stock trades at 79.8x earnings, versus 30.7x for the US software industry and a fair ratio of 37.7x, indicating a potentially rich valuation.