Solutions Engineer

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Opti is seeking a Solutions Engineer to own the technical side of our US sales motion. You’ll lead demos, drive POCs to a technical win, and serve as the trusted technical voice with security and IAM teams. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role reporting to the VP of Sales.

You’ll partner with account executives, respond to security questionnaires, and help shape our SE playbook as Opti scales.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a pre-sales role at a cybersecurity startup or early-stage company.
• Proven record of demos and POCs that convert to revenue.
• Strong technical foundation: APIs, SaaS integrations, authentication protocols, and enterprise IT environments.
• Sales-oriented mindset: translate customer pain into business outcomes.
• Excellent communication from practitioners to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, demos, and deep-dive sessions with CISOs, IAM leads, and security architects.
• Own end-to-end POCs: scoping, success criteria, integration setup, driving to a technical win.
• Partner with account executives on deal strategy and translate customer environments into deployment plans.
• Answer security questionnaires, RFIs/RFPs, and architecture questions.
• Represent Opti at customer sites, conferences, and industry events (travel required).
• Channel field feedback to product and engineering, and help build the SE playbook, demo environments, and technical collateral.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Demos & POCs

APIs & SaaS

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Self-starter

Enterprise IT

Job description

About the Company:

Opti is the AI-native identity security platform, replacing manual, periodic access governance with continuous, automated control that deploys in hours, not months. Founded by repeat cybersecurity entrepreneurs and backed by top-tier VCs with $20M in funding, we're AWS's exclusive emerging IAM partner in the Security Hub Extended program.

About the Role

We're looking for a Solutions Engineer to own the technical side of our US sales motion: demos that land, POCs driven to conversion, and the trusted technical voice in the room with security and IAM teams. It's a hands-on, high-ownership role, working directly with customers and shaping how we run POCs and demos as we scale.

Reports to VP of Sales

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discovery, demos, and deep-dive sessions with CISOs, IAM leads, and security architects
• Own POCs end to end: scoping, success criteria, integration setup (IdPs, HR systems, SaaS and on-prem applications), driving to a technical win
• Partner with account executives on deal strategy and translate customer environments into deployment plans
• Answer security questionnaires, RFIs/RFPs, and architecture questions
• Represent Opti at customer sites, conferences, and industry events (travel required)
• Channel field feedback to product and engineering, and help build the SE playbook, demo environments, and technical collateral

Requirements

• 5+ years in a pre-sales role (Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or similar) at a cybersecurity startup or early-stage company
• Proven record of running demos and POCs that convert to revenue
• Strong technical foundation: comfortable with APIs, SaaS integrations, authentication protocols, and enterprise IT environments (cloud and on-prem)
• A sales-oriented mindset: you know how to listen for pain, connect capabilities to business outcomes, and move a technical evaluation forward
• Excellent communication skills, from hands-on practitioners to executive stakeholders
• Based in the US, with willingness to travel to customers and events
• Self-starter comfortable with the pace and ambiguity of an early-stage company

Nice to Have

• Experience in identity: IAM, IGA, identity security, or adjacent (IdPs, access management, PAM)

Why Join us

• Ground-floor role in a fast-moving category, with direct impact on how we sell and build
• Work with a founding team of repeat cybersecurity entrepreneurs
• A product that demos well and deploys in hours, so your POCs move fast