Senior Solutions Engineer

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILMichiganWisconsin
Salary
$200,000–$275,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $194k
This role $238k
$139k most similar roles pay here $290k

This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $153,670–$235,187 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $194k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

Okta Inc currently has 137 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$239,000 across 137 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Solutions Engineer

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor within the enterprise pre-sales team, driving the technical sales cycle for large, complex accounts. You will partner with Account Executives to uncover business challenges regarding risk, cost, and operational efficiency while translating technical features into tangible outcomes. Your daily responsibilities include mastering the discovery process, navigating matrixed organizations to present to stakeholders like CISOs and architects, and positioning identity solutions for both human and non-human actors. You will work with technologies including SAML, OIDC, SSF, and Zero Trust Architecture to solve problems related to identity governance, privileged access management, and threat protection. The role focuses on securing the enterprise against risks while providing a centralized control plane for managing diverse identities in an evolving landscape of AI integration and automated workflows.

What does a Solutions Engineer earn?

Median $168500 from 35 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Conduct deep discovery sessions to identify customer pain points and uncover the "why" behind their initiatives.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for stakeholders like CISOs and IT security leaders.
  • Articulate Okta’s unique differentiators regarding architecture, compliance, and platform coverage to win technical decisions.
  • Advise customers on managing non-human identities and securing unmanaged AI agents within their infrastructure.
  • Lead technical evaluation phases of B2B SaaS sales cycles to overcome objections and drive deals to closure.
  • Act as a subject matter expert in identity standards, Zero Trust Architecture, and modern authentication protocols.

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience in a customer-facing Pre-Sales role such as Sales Engineer or Solutions Consultant.
  • Demonstrated track record of quota attainment and securing technical wins with large, complex enterprise accounts.
  • Strong executive communication, presentation, and storytelling skills to influence decision-makers.
  • Ability to translate highly technical concepts into clear business value regarding revenue, cost, and risk.
  • Technical agility to learn new enterprise technologies and architectures rapidly.
  • Broad knowledge of the Identity Security landscape, including IAM, PAM, and Zero Trust Architecture.
  • Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as SAML, OIDC, and SSF.
  • Experience or understanding of AI security, LLM integrations, and non-human identity risks.

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