Senior Solutions Engineer — Identity Security Platform

Okta; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Okta is recruiting a Senior Solutions Engineer for the UK&I region, based around the London Office. You will partner with the sales team to drive opportunities, deliver technical demonstrations, and help customers understand how Auth0 Identity Platform can meet their security and business needs.

The role requires strong technical and communication skills, experience in pre-sales, and the ability to work with developers, product managers and executives.

Qualifications

• Experience in a pre-sales role as Sales Engineer or Solutions Engineer.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas around a technical topic, ideally on the fly at a whiteboard.
• Experience in a customer-facing role such as consulting, support, teaching, or pre-sales.
• Experience with at least one standard identity protocol (e.g. OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP).
• Strong development background with proficiency in at least one backend stack (e.g., Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) and a popular frontend stack (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Experience working with REST APIs and SDKs.
• An understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF).
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to articulate business value.
• An ability to disperse knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience.
• A natural at building relationships, listening, and managing time well.
• Enjoy travel and meeting customers.
• Bonus points if you have experience in Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-On and API-based solutions; Agentic AI; mobile development; HTTP/REST tools.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive discovery to map customer requirements to business outcomes.
• Collaborate with sales to progress opportunities and drive technical wins.
• Build and deliver product demonstrations and educate diverse stakeholders.
• Lead hands-on solution validation, PoCs, and custom demos.
• Maintain deep knowledge of the Auth0 product line and related protocols.
• Engage in local and regional sales and marketing events to accelerate deals.

Skills

Pre-Sales experience

Technical storytelling

Customer-facing

OIDC/OAuth2/SAML

Backend development

REST APIs

Security concepts

Communication

Travel

Relationship building

Mobile development

Tools

Postman

HTTP DevTools

Job description

Okta is recruiting a Senior Solutions Engineer for the UK&I region, based around the London Office. You will partner with the sales team to drive opportunities, deliver technical demonstrations, and help customers understand how Auth0 Identity Platform can meet their security and business needs.

The role requires strong technical and communication skills, experience in pre-sales, and the ability to work with developers, product managers and executives.