Senior Manager, Sales Engineering

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.  At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. AVAILABLE LOCATIONS * Remote, India RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead the technical customer-facing organization in India, reporting into APAC Customer Engineering leadership, and is accountable for building a high-performing, AI-augmented technical go-to-market team that drives new business, adoption, retention, and expansion. * This role is both a people leadership role and a commercial technical leadership role. It is designed for a leader who can coach customer-facing technologists, shape regional technical strategy, and partner closely with sales, product, and customer success to deliver measurable business outcomes. * Lead and develop the India Customer Engineering team across enterprise and strategic accounts. Act as a player-coach: maintain strong individual technical contribution while enabling the team. * Serve as the point of reference for the team on complex customer architecture, escalations, and solution design. * Own regional technical strategy for discovery, demos, architecture design, PoCs, onboarding support, QBRs, renewal support, and expansion plays. * Partner with Account Executives to drive technical validation and help close new business. * Keep workloads balanced, support onboarding of new team members, and ensure the team is set up for success. * Conduct regular 1:1s, provide constructive feedback, and coach team members on discovery, solution architecture, executive communication, and business-value translation. * Build and run the operating cadence for pipeline inspection, technical deal support, adoption reviews, and account expansion planning. * Hire, retain, and develop top CE talent; build succession plans and bench strength. * Facilitate cross-team coordination with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Support to resolve issues quickly and keep customers moving. * Surface regional feedback, product gaps, and competitive insight to product and engineering. Represent Cloudflare in executive customer meetings, regional events, and partner discussions. DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERIENCE * Demonstrated experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering. * Demonstrated people leadership experience, including second-line leadership, hiring, coaching, and performance management. * Experience working with enterprise customers in India or APAC. * Strong technical breadth across security, networking, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and developer platforms. * Proven commercial mindset with experience in quota-carrying or revenue-aligned motions. Strong executive presence and ability to bridge technical depth with business outcomes. Comfort working in a fast-moving, AI-enabled operating model. * Experience with hyperscaler ecosystems or cybersecurity vendors. * Hands-on experience with Cloudflare's developer stack, especially Workers AI and AI Gateway. Applied AI experience, including prompt engineering, LLM orchestration, or RAG. * Coding/scripting fluency in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages. * Relevant certifications such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Palo Alto, ISC2, or ISACA. What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. AS A SENIOR MANAGER, SOLUTION ENGINEERING, YOU WILL: * Hire, coach, and inspire a high-performing team of Solution Engineers, driving career development, performance management, and continuous skill enablement. * Support and coach your SEs as they partner with Account Executives to discover customer pain points, develop opportunities, and secure the technical win. * Partner directly with senior customer technical leaders on strategic opportunities to articulate Okta’s platform value and secure technical buying decisions. * Build deep relationships with key partner technical sales leaders to establish Okta as their preferred identity security standard. * Partner with aligned Area Sales Directors to design, execute, and scale Go-To-Market strategies that consistently exceed regional booking targets. * Align with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and peer SE managers to share best practices, track market trends, and support organizational scaling. * Present on key Identity & Access Management (IAM) and cybersecurity topics at Okta events and industry conferences. * Collaborate with HR, Finance, and Operations on workforce planning, budget alignment, and talent acquisition strategies. * Serve as an ambassador between the field and headquarters, funneling critical customer feedback and product requirements directly to Okta's Product and Engineering teams. WE ARE LOOKING FOR DEMONSTRABLE EXPERIENCE IN: * A proven track record of managing and scaling high-performing Solution or Sales Engineering teams. * Attracting, recruiting, and onboarding top-tier technical sales talent in a high-growth environment. * Blending technical excellence with strong business acumen and value-selling methodologies to achieve and exceed business targets. * Establishing and maintaining trust-based relationships with key technical stakeholders at both customer and partner organizations. * Developing and maintaining deep hands-on technical expertise, with the ability to confidently lead architectural discussions across a complex, highly technical product portfolio. NICE TO HAVE: * Strong technical skills gained in the security or identity space (e.g., Workforce Identity, CIAM, PAM, ISPM, Federation/SSO, Active Directory, LDAP, or modern API-first security). * A strong understanding of competitor product offerings in the IAM, IGA, and cybersecurity markets.   Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies: * Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.         * Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses. * Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals. * Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. * Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. What we offer: * Generous stock in the company * Car allowance * Exceptional onboarding program for all new employees, plus continued learning and development through Okta University and specific accreditations.  * Team off-sites, events and networking opportunities.  * The chance to join a company growing 40% year over year.   #LI-Hybrid #LI-JP3 Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in the United Kingdom. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) and comprehensive healthcare coverage and financial benefits including paid time off and parental leave in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/gbr. The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the United Kingdom is between: £163,000—£220,000 GBP The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.