Full-Time
Strategic Client Engineer
Upper Midwest
Updated on 9/4/2026
Commvault
1,001-5,000 employees
Data protection software and services provider
Compensation Overview
$168.3k - $270.3k/yr
Minnesota, USA + 1 more
More locations: Illinois, USA
Remote
Must live in Illinois or Minnesota; travel to customers up to 50%.
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- 8-10+ years of proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales.
- 5+ years of experience working in major or global accounts.
- Strong experience running competitive proofs of concept and proofs of value with clearly defined success and exit criteria.
- Advanced understanding of cyber resilience, cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and modern application architectures.
- Ability to operate as a self-starter taking ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.
- Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers.
- Ability to engage regularly with senior leadership across Commvault.
- Willingness to travel to customers up to 50%.
- Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions in key strategic accounts across security, backup, cloud, and artificial intelligence teams.
- Partner with the Major Account Manager to implement national account plans and drive execution of strategic initiatives.
- Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover cross-sell and expansion opportunities.
- Maintain engagement beyond the initial sale, ensuring outcomes are realized and leveraging insights to support future sales motions.
- Translate high-level account goals into technical deliverables, including solution design, bid preparation, and delivery coordination as the technical owner for several large strategic accounts.
- Advocate for customer needs within Commvault product and engineering teams, providing feedback informed by field experience.
- Coordinate and lead technical workshops, demonstrations, and business reviews to scale impact across accounts.
- Actively support competitive sales motions by identifying differentiation and influencing evaluation criteria throughout the sales cycle.
- Develop and maintain partnerships with key value-added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and global systems integrators in the accounts.
- Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes and multi-product solutions.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
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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Simplify's Take
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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↑ 3%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.
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.
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.
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.
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.