Senior Solution Architect - Security | Santa Clara, CA - USA (Office)

Overview

Cohesity opens in a new tab is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Staff Security Solutions Engineer to join our Security Center of Excellence (SCOE). This role is ideal for a security evangelist who can bridge the gap between technology, security strategy, and field enablement. As the representative of the SCOE team, you will be hands-on lead and drive thought leadership, building trust with customers and partners, and enabling our sales teams to accelerate cyber resilience adoption. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, empowering the field with the right security solutions, architectures, and best practices.

How you'll spend your time here

• Security Evangelism & Thought Leadership
• Act as the primary evangelist for Cohesity’s security strategy, solutions, and vision.
• Represent the SCOE at conferences, webinars, partner events, and customer briefings.
• Publish blogs, whitepapers, reference architecture, and thought leadership content on modern security trends and solutions.
• Sales Enablement & Field Support
• Partner with the Worldwide Field Organization to drive security-focused sales plays, value drivers, and customer outcomes.
• Enable Account Executives, Sales Engineers, Field Technical Directors, and Partners through training, workshops, and collateral.
• Support strategic customer engagements, proofs of concept, and executive briefings.
• Create high-quality security collateral, including technical deep-dive slides, best practice guides, and reference architectures, while enabling the field and customers to utilize these resources.
• Security Solution Expertise
• Hands-on and lead conversations on threat hunting, sensitive data classification, DSPM, and data protection.
• Guide customers on cyber resilience, ransomware recovery, security integrations, backup strategies, and orchestration frameworks.
• Collaborate with product teams to influence the security roadmap and ensure alignment with customer needs.
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Act as the voice of the field within the SCOE, bringing insights from customers and partners back to engineering, product, and marketing teams.
• Drive the creation of security artifacts—security narrative, technical deep dives, reference architecture, partner (security) sales playbooks, competitive positioning, and technical content.

What we'd love to talk to you if you have many of the following

Preferred Qualifications

Pay Range

$176,000.00-$220,000.00

Note : The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

Benefits

Legal notices

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws and other notices : This position has a starting pay range as listed above. Actual salary depends on factors including skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and / or equity grants. Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

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