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Solutions Engineer

C1· Sales
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San Francisco Office$100k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Sr. Solutions Engineer to drive customer adoption and success by delivering technical expertise, guiding customers through evaluations, and architecting secure, scalable identity and access management solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers on identity governance, authentication, authorization, and access control strategies.
  • Architect and deliver technical solutions spanning IGA, IAM, CIEM, and PAM, mapping business requirements into scalable identity architectures.
  • Lead workshops, whiteboard sessions, and demos that showcase the business value of identity automation, access governance, and zero trust.
  • Design and implement integration strategies across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a strong understanding of native identity services, policies, and entitlement models.
  • Nerd out on protocols and standards like SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SCIM, and FIDO2 — and explain them to both engineers and CISOs.
  • Build, test, and troubleshoot custom integrations and workflows using APIs, SDKs, and Terraform/automation frameworks.
  • Stay ahead of industry trends (IGA, CIEM, Just-in-Time access, Zero Trust, identity for machine/non-human accounts) and share thought leadership with internal teams and customers.

Qualifications

  • 1-3 years in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or identity architect/engineer role, OR equivalent hands-on experience in IAM/IGA/AI.
  • Foundational understanding of authentication, authorization, identity services (Okta, Entra AD, LDAP, Google Workspace), and cloud IAM basics.
  • Practical knowledge of directory services (Okta, Entra ID, LDAP, Google Workspace, on-prem AD).
  • Hands-on cloud experience with AWS IAM/IAM Identity Center, GCP IAM, and Azure AD/role-based access models, including how to govern them with IGA.
  • Comfort with GO, APIs, SDKs, JSON/YAML, scripting, and automation, Terraform or similar IaC tools.
  • Great communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Curiosity about identity security and drive to deepen technical knowledge over time.
  • Willingness to travel for customer meetings, partner events, or industry conferences.

Skills

Required:Identity governance (IGA)IAM/Iga/CIEM/PAMCloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)Protocols (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SCIM, FIDO2)APIs/SDKs/TerraformCommunication

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Commission
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Access for the agentic era

C1 equips security and IT teams with a powerful autonomous identity security platform. Secure access with complete visibility, just-in-time provisioning, automated access reviews, and more.

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