An optoelectronic sensor (10) for detecting an object (20) in a monitoring region (18), the sensor (10) having a light transmitter (12) for transmitting transmitted light (16) of a wavelength range; a light receiver (32) for generating a received signal from the remitted light (22) remitted or reflected by the object (20), a reception optics (24) arranged in front of the light receiver (32), the reception optics (24) comprising at least a first optical element (26) for focusing the remitted light (22), a second optical element (28) for reducing the angle of incidence, and an optical filter (30) tuned to the wavelength range for suppressing interfering light; and an evaluation unit (34) which is configured to generate object information from the received signal, wherein the second optical element (28) comprises light scattering properties.