Solutions Engineer

• About depthfirst
• We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization. Yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience. We are on a mission to secure the world’s software.

depthfirst is building intelligence to detect and remediate critical software vulnerabilities. We are training and scaling security AI agents to discover zero-day vulnerabilities across large customer codebases and popular open source software.

Our founding team brings deep expertise in data, infrastructure, security and AI, with leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, Square, and Faire. We're looking for thoughtful, driven people excited to work at the intersection of AI, Security, and Infrastructure.

About This Role

We’re looking for an Enterprise Solutions Engineer to help enterprises transform how they secure software. This is a highly strategic, customer-facing role where you will own the technical sales motion from discovery through validation and expansion.

You’ll partner directly with Account Executives, security leaders, and engineering teams to define evaluation criteria, lead technical validation, and translate results into measurable business impact. As an early member of the solutions engineering function, you will help define how we run evaluations, position differentiated value, and scale our enterprise motion.

You’re excited about this role because you will...

Own and lead full-cycle technical evaluations, from discovery through proof of value and executive readout

Partner with security and engineering stakeholders to define clear success criteria tied to vulnerability detection quality, false positive reduction, and remediation speed

Demonstrate how depthfirst differs from legacy SAST and SCA tools through contextual code understanding, reachability and exploitability analysis, and highly repeatable results

Work hands-on in customer CI/CD environments (GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.) to ensure seamless deployment and minimal developer disruption

Translate technical validation into executive-ready ROI narratives for CISOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering

Act as the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering, shaping roadmap priorities based on real-world feedback

Help build and scale a world-class solutions engineering function, including playbooks, demo environments, and repeatable evaluation frameworks

Qualifications

4+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Security Engineer, or similar

Strong understanding of modern software development workflows and CI/CD systems

Exposure to application security, vulnerability management, static analysis, or secure SDLC practices

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineers and executive stakeholders

High ownership mentality and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments

Mission-driven and genuinely excited about AI and security

Located in or willing to relocate to San Francisco (preferred)

What We Offer

Competitive salary with meaningful equity

Health, vision, and dental insurance

High ownership and impact as an early member of the go-to-market team

The opportunity to join a rapidly scaling AI security startup during a critical growth phase

depthfirst is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

To all recruitment agencies: depthfirst does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to depthfirst employees. depthfirst is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.