Enterprise Sales Engineering, Security

Fivetran Fivetran · Data AI · United States · Remote · Sales Department

Fivetran is seeking a Lead Sales Engineering Specialist focused on Security to join their sales engineering team. This role involves responding to security questionnaires, engaging in customer-facing security calls, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure platform security. The specialist will support sales teams with technical knowledge of Fivetran's security operations and features, lead documentation efforts, and stay updated on security trends. Experience with cloud platforms, security technologies, compliance frameworks, and generative AI for workflow acceleration is expected.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support our sales and field sales engineering teams with deep technical knowledge and understanding of Fivetran’s internal security operations, related platform features, and the security domain
  2. Deliver timely and accurate responses to prospect and customer security questionnaires utilizing internal tooling
  3. Work with Legal and AppSec to maintain internal libraries for use in security questionnaires
  4. Lead documentation and internal enablement efforts, helping to scale our specialist knowledge to the entire department
  5. Engage directly with prospects and customers on security architecture reviews and compliance discussions, with increasing ownership over time

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years as a security administrator, backend engineer, field CISO, or IT services within an enterprise or similarly complex environment
  • Extensive expertise with modern cloud and on-premise network architectures, connectivity mechanisms (SSH, Reverse SSH, VPN, PrivateLink), and data security.
  • Ability to effectively communicate Fivetran’s detailed security posture and influence security audiences at all levels
  • Experience with trust center management platforms and security questionnaire automation software

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with programming languages such as Java, SQL, and Python is a plus
  • Passion for data, security, analytics, and a philosophy of using technology to help solve business problems, including experience with using generative AI to accelerate and scale day-to-day workflows
  • Curiosity to learn and assimilate technical information quickly, enthusiasm to share and teach others.

What the JD emphasized

  • security needs
  • security questionnaires
  • infosec calls
  • platform security
  • security domain
  • security posture
  • security audiences
  • security questionnaire automation software