Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer, Okta

• 3+ years experience with Javascript or a similar language
• 3+ years of experience with at least one backend stack (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) or experience with a popular frontend stack (React, Angular)
• 3+ years of experience working with REST APIs and SDKs
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions, incorporating whiteboarding, practical examples, and product demonstrations
• Experience in a customer-facing role such as consulting, support, teaching, or pre-sales
• You're a natural at building relationships, listening, and managing time well
• Fluent in French and English

Desirable

• Thousands of enterprises and users worldwide depend on Okta to authenticate and authorise their mission-critical apps, APIs, and IoT devices. Okta continues to grow, and so do the volume and complexity of the needs of our prospective customers, as security and identity management are now core concerns of every business
• As a result, we are growing our Pre-Sales Engineering team and looking for an experienced Solutions Engineer to join our team
• You're a great match if you have the rare combination of technical savviness and business insight and you're looking for a career where you can utilise both
• As a Solutions Engineer at Okta, you will build sales presentations and product demonstrations and educate customers at every level, from developers to product managers to C-level executives, on the best ways to implement Okta customer identity and access management solutions
• The Specialist Solutions Engineer (SE) has a robust technical security background, is passionate and knowledgeable about Identity and Access Management, and has prior experience in Customer Identity
• In this Pre Sales role, the Specialist SE will be a technical expert who can engage with Okta's broader field team and breadth of technical influencers in our customers to help them address their identity management challenges, driving a clear technical preference for Okta's offerings
• Support the Core SE and AE with highly complex technical engagements
• Lead Q&A sessions with prospective customers to understand their requirements
• Deliver interactive presentations and solution demonstrations to all levels of an organisation
• Whiteboard solutions, modelling how Okta's IAM solution will support their current architecture requirements and use cases
• Execute well-defined, outcome-focused PoCs and PoVs
• Maintain a broad and deep technical understanding of the Okta product line and the underlying technologies and protocols
• Craft engaging solution content to position Okta's value across multiple business units, including software engineering, operations, product management, and business stakeholders
• Support and encourage strong feedback loops between the Specialist Solution Engineering team and Sales Engineering, Product, Engineering, Marketing and Professional Services organisations
• Stay current on industry trends through self-study, research, and online courses
• Proactive engagement in local and regional sales and marketing events