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Principal Security Field Engineer

Principal Security Field Engineer empowering customers and field teams with Databricks platform security expertise. Involves customer consultations, creating scalable content and automation, internal enablement, and using AI to address complex security, architecture, and compliance questions. Requires 5+ years technical pre/post-sales experience and broad security domain knowledge.

216k – 372k
Remote5+ YOESales Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Work with field teams and customers to understand architectures, address security concerns, and handle compliance questions.
  • Create scalable customer-facing content such as slide decks, white papers, and knowledge base articles.
  • Provide internal enablement, process improvement, automation, and technical leadership.
  • Identify customer pain points and collaborate with product management and product marketing to improve the product and messaging.
  • Contribute to internal-facing services and automation for field staff and customers.
  • Train other Databricks team members on security topics.
  • Use AI relentlessly to scale impact across customers and employees.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of technical pre-sales or post-sales experience explaining complex concepts.
  • Strong ability to understand complex security principles and architectures and communicate them simply.
  • Real-world experience in multiple security domains such as IaaS+PaaS+SaaS, network and endpoint security, web applications, vulnerability management, identity management, and SIEM.
  • Experience with scripting or programming.
  • Excitement to use AI to scale impact.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Understanding of the Databricks platform.
  • Experience from an assurance team or with common security and compliance regimes.

Skills

Security ArchitecturePre-SalesPost-SalesIaasPaasSaaSNetwork SecurityEndpoint SecurityWeb Application SecurityVulnerability ManagementIdentity ManagementSIEMScriptingProgrammingAI Tools

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