Solutions Architect

StackHawk helps software developers find and fix security vulnerabilities before they deploy code to production. Every modern software development organization has shifted from quarterly releases to daily or hourly releases, incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). In the modern world of FinTech, HealthTech, cloud analytics and AI platforms, customers are entrusting their most critical data to software providers. Periodic manual security testing by an external team is simply too risky. Because of this, modern software development organizations are extending CI/CD to encompass Continuous Application and API Security Testing. This way, security can “shift left,” meaning vulnerabilities can be detected while the developer is actively working on the code.

StackHawk leads the market in developer first API security testing. Application and API security is an exciting market, where more than 43% of global decision makers are looking to implement dynamic application security testing during software development, which represents a massive opportunity for StackHawk. StackHawk is building out a team of leaders and team members that will capitalize on market pull, and enable growth-phase scale of the business.

The Role:

Application security is shifting left, with software engineering teams taking ownership over the security of their applications. StackHawk is helping lead this charge with our application security testing software, built for automation in CI/CD. 

We're seeing rapid growth and looking for a Solutions Architect to partner with the sales team, enable them to engage in technical discussions, and be the primary technical relationship owner with prospects & customers. You will assist folks in configuring the StackHawk scanning engine and instrumenting application security testing in their CI/CD pipeline. This role is key to the success of the conversion of prospects to customers, helping them quickly become successful with the scanning engine, and leveraging the StackHawk platform for triaging and fixing security bugs.  

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to define your success & significantly accelerate your career within a very short period of time. You will be reporting directly to our VP of Customer Success.

• Be the technical product expert with the ability to coach, train, and give technical product demonstrations to customers, prospects, and partners.
• Discover customer use cases and their ideal solution using StackHawk's sales methodology
• Own and drive the technical aspects of the customer journey by providing demonstrations, managing proof of concepts, technical onboarding support for new customers and sharing best practices
• Collaborate with engineering / devops / appsec teams to instrument StackHawk in customer CI/CD pipelines
• Shape new product decisions and feature enhancements by conveying customers needs and requests to Product and Engineering teams
• Ability to travel (around 25% estimated) throughout sales territory for meetings with prospects, partners, and events
• Ability to work odd hours at times to support our growing sales team and customer base. This position will primarily support our East Coast Sales Team.

• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing role. Background in sales engineering preferred
• You have excellent written and oral business communication skills and are comfortable presenting complex technical subjects to both highly technical and business audiences.
• You have the heart of a teacher - someone who is patient, eager to educate prospects, and dedicated to delivering exceptional value.
• Ability to create technical content suitable for a variety of audiences and formats
• Have a good understanding of the developer and DevOps ecosystems and practices
• Ability and experience in troubleshooting software products
• Experience with at least one scripting language. Kotlin, Bash, Python, JavaScript, PHP
• Familiarity with web applications - request/response headers, HTTP protocol, authentication and authorization
• Familiarity and experience with some or all of the following technologies: REST API, GraphQL, Server Side HTML applications, OAuth/OIDC, Docker, JSON, YAML, and Zed Attack Proxy
• Embracer of change – StackHawk is an early-stage organization, which may have unpredictable twists and turns. If you're excited by the challenge and the opportunity to build something from scratch, this is the role for you
• Self starter – you don’t need a fully baked playbook to do your job. You're excited by the challenge of solving problems, managing your work, and holding yourself accountable

• Competitive Compensation: Earn a competitive salary and get an equity stake in the company that we are building together. 
• Solid Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance 100% paid for employees and dependents. Other benefits include life insurance, AD&D, and 401K.
• Time to Recharge Encouraged: Take what you need vacation plus ten paid holidays! Unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
• Fun Team and Perks: We do great work and have fun doing it! We take care of our employees… We’ll contribute to your WFH setup and hook you up with occasional at-home perks. Plus, work with a team that loves to have fun while doing our work! 

At StackHawk, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hawks) to do the best work of their lives. With our roots beginning in downtown Denver Colorado, we have many folks based in the Mountain time zone with the rest of our Hawks working remotely across the United States

We are also committed to keeping Hawks healthy, motivated, focused, and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

StackHawk is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!