Solution Architect (North America)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026. Safe Security scores A on the Alion truth index.
You are the technical lead on CTEM deals, from the first discovery call through a closed proof of value. You work between the customer's vulnerability management team, their CISO, and our account executives.
Your job is to prove, in the customer's own data, that SAFE finds the exposures that matter and gets them fixed faster than what they run today.
You start as the CTEM expert on the team. Over your first year, you learn TPRM and CRQ so you can carry any SAFE deal.
Reports to: VP, Global Pre-Sales
Level: Solution Architect or Senior Solution Architect, set by experience
Location: Remote, North America
What you will do:
Run technical discovery. Map the customer's scanners, asset inventory, ticketing, and remediation workflow, then find where it breaks.
Deliver demos built for the buyer. Show their problem solved in their terms-no feature tours.
Own proofs of value. Write success criteria with the customer, connect their tools, and deliver measurable results on a deadline.
Win the technical argument. Position SAFE against legacy vulnerability management and other exposure management platforms, using facts and the customer's own data.
Speak to both rooms. Explain exploitability and remediation to engineers, then explain the same exposure in business and financial terms to a CISO.
Know your deals. Keep stage, blockers, and next steps current in our CRM and presales systems so the forecast holds.
Make the product better. Bring product what customers ask for, where we win, and where we have gaps.
Build what the team reuses. Demo environments, POV playbooks, and competitive notes.
What you bring:
3+ years hands-on in vulnerability management or exposure management, as a practitioner or as a presales engineer selling it
Working knowledge of the stack: scanners such as Tenable, Qualys, and Rapid7, cloud and application security findings, EDR, CMDB, and ITSM tools such as ServiceNow and Jira
Fluency in prioritization: CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, asset criticality, exploitability, and compensating controls, plus an opinion on where each falls short
Understanding of the five CTEM phases: scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization
Comfort with APIs and messy data. You can read API docs, troubleshoot an integration, and make sense of a raw export
Clear communication. You can make a point to a CISO in two minutes and defend it with an engineer for twenty
Hunger to learn. You pick up new domains fast, on your own, and you use AI tools every day
Speed and ownership. You are comfortable with change, short timelines, and work that has no playbook yet
Coachability. You want direct feedback, and you act on it
Nice to have:
Experience running POVs or POCs with enterprise accounts
Exposure to cyber risk quantification, FAIR, or third-party risk
Scripting in Python or SQL
Background in penetration testing, red team, threat intelligence, or incident response
Experience presenting to CISOs or executive audiences
Your first 90 days:
By day 30: You know the platform and its integrations. You have shadowed live deals and passed your CTEM demo in front of the SA team.
By day 60: You lead CTEM discovery and demos with your account executives and co-run your first POV.
By day 90: You own CTEM POVs end to end and have started on TPRM.
Why this job:
You shape a category. Exposure management is still being defined. Your deals and your feedback decide how SAFE wins it.
You get range. You start in CTEM and add TPRM and CRQ, which few presales roles in security offer.
You get coached. Practitioners get a structured path into presales. Experienced SEs get more scope and direct access to product and leadership.
You work with agentic AI in production, in front of enterprise security teams, every week.