Principal Solutions Engineer

Summary

Join Wiz, a rapidly growing cloud security company, as a Principal Solutions Engineer. You will collaborate with various teams (CTO, Field CTO, Customer Success, Product Management, and R&D) to ensure coordinated sales efforts. This role involves providing technical and business feedback to improve Wiz's messaging, collaborating with sales teams on strategic opportunities, assisting with advanced use cases and troubleshooting, leading thought leadership sessions, and assisting in selling Wiz platform capabilities. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical background, experience with public cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), and expertise in Kubernetes and containers. The ability to lead conversations in Japanese and experience with coding and developer workflows are also essential.

Requirements

• Strong technical background with a solid understanding of core IT, InfoSec, Cloud, and DevOps concepts
• Proven skill set and experience with a career path focused on public cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• SME-level knowledge of Kubernetes and containers with the ability to architect and troubleshoot complex environments
• Ability to lead conversations (in Japanese) focused on various audiences, including technical, business, and executive levels
• Be passionate about continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership
• Experience and ability to code and understand developer workflows. Git, CI/CD, helm, terraform, etc

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and business-relevant feedback into Product Management based on field engagements to improve Wiz’s position and value messaging to prospects and clients
• Collaborate with Wiz sales teams on strategic opportunities in demonstrating the business and technical value of the Wiz platform
• Assist SEs and prospects with advanced use cases, installation/deployment, and troubleshooting during the POC process
• Lead regular thought leadership sessions with the field teams, sharing insights and approaches derived through customer engagement to improve our effectiveness in messaging and delivering value to prospective clients and existing customers
• Assist in messaging and selling Wiz platform capabilities to prospects and customers