Principal Solutions Engineer

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the sales team in helping customers understand what they can achieve with Okta
• Understand customer requirements and communicate the business value of solving technology problems using cloud technology
• Execute the delivery of POCs for customers that have more complex use cases, collaborating with other Okta engineering teams as needed
• Craft technical content to show customers how to implement specific use cases or standard methodologies for new technologies
• Prepare demos and proof of concepts to demonstrate various use cases for Okta’s Platform
• Distill and communicate customer needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Sales

Required Skills

• 8+ years pre-sales engineering experience
• A passion to serve the customer, which has played out in some customer-facing role like consulting or support, ideally solutions engineering
• An ability to quickly communicate complex ideas around a technical topic, ideally on the fly at a whiteboard
• Experience with at least one standard network security protocol (e.g. OAuth, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP)
• Hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: web (JavaScript, HTML, frontend frameworks) development, mobile (iOS, Android) development, backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications
• An understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF)
• Elite communicator, confident dispensing knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience
• Typically 10-25% travel
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field is preferred