Principal Security Field Engineer

About the Role

The Security Field Engineering team helps data teams solve the world's toughest problems by empowering customers to understand the security of the Databricks platform and by helping account teams address questions that come up during security reviews. Reporting to the Head of Security Field Engineering, you will meet with customers to answer questions, train other Databricks team members, build customer-facing content such as slide decks, white papers, and maybe write code that customers can use.

Impact

• You will be viewed as a security expert as you work with field teams and customers to understand architectures, address concerns, and handle compliance questions.
• Your contributions may come in multiple ways, including customer interactions, scalable slides or white paper creation, internal enablement, process improvement, automation, or technical leadership.
• Your impact will be felt across the company through enablement, collateral, knowledge management, and systems built.
• Come up to speed with common security and compliance regimes to save customers hours of effort and uncertainty.
• Identify customer pain points and collaborate with product management and product marketing to improve the product and messaging.
• Contribute to internal-facing services and automation that make life easier for field staff and customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical pre-sales or post-sales experience explaining complex technical concepts.
• Equal passion for understanding complex security principles and architectures and communicating them simply.
• Real-world experience across multiple security domains (such as IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, network and endpoint security, web applications, vulnerability management, identity management, and SIEM).
• Experience with scripting or programming, with enthusiasm for leveraging AI for productivity and scale.
• Understanding of the Databricks platform is a strong plus.