Solutions Architect

Why join us NOW

APIs form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot rapidly innovate. Salt Security has delivered the only patented solution to identify and prevent API attacks, using Big Data and AI to thwart this top threat to businesses today.

We are backed by the best investors in the world (YCombinator, S-Capital, Tenaya, Sequoia, Capital G, and more) and recently achieved a $1.4B valuation.

We have an amazing customer base - https://salt.security/customers and we’re at a unique sweet spot in a startup’s lifecycle - the customer demand is huge, yet our team is small and super-high quality.

We are growing fast, and the opportunity window to join as a member of the core team is closing.

We have many challenges we have not yet tackled, waiting for talented and passionate people to own.

We have many leading positions still to fill.

Our org structure is evolving constantly to meet our business needs, creating many opportunities to grow.

Now is the opportunity to partner in this growth and help shape the future of Salt Security as the world’s leader in API security.

Who We Are

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving a diverse set of engineering challenges.

Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!

About the position:

Salt is expanding and seeking an outstanding Solution Architect to join our team!

This key position includes a broad set of responsibilities:

1. You will own researching, designing, and building (hands-on) the tools and infrastructure to make our service scale and become seamless to deploy, operate, and integrate with our Fortune 500 customers’ existing infrastructures
2. You will be responsible for driving and managing the technical implementation of Salt’s products, playing a key role in bringing new customers and supporting existing ones
3. You will troubleshoot the toughest customer issues, and support and train Salt’s sales engineers, customer success engineers, and product managers
4. You will provide the best possible service to our existing and future customers, working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that requires high availability for our customers

To learn more about Salt Security’s R&D - https://tinyurl.com/salt-rnd

Who you are

• Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Fast learner - able to work independently and adapt quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to collaborate across the company - with R&D, product, sales engineers, senior management, and customers
• 7+ years of DevOps and IT experience including:
• A wide variety of modern technologies (as many of the following as possible: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift)
• Strong scripting experience - bash and python
• Extensive infrastructure and IT experience (Linux distributions, Linux networking, proxies, firewalls, cloud networking, virtualization, VMWare stack, Redhat stack)
• Passion and willingness to be highly available to our customers, sales engineers, and customer success
• Fluent English- verbal and written communication skills

Preferred experience:

• Strength in Microsoft Azure or deep knowledge of API Gateways
• Proven track record of solution architecture or professional services - demonstrated ability to lead deployments and troubleshooting sessions while maintaining rapport and providing great service
• Prior startup experience in growth phases - with a quickly growing customer base
• Experience working with enterprise customers’ IT and DevOps departments to architect and deploy on-prem solutions (preferably security-oriented)