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# Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Cogent Inc
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Validation, Software Vulnerability Management
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/solutions-architect-us-west-cogent-security-8756287

## About the Role

* 10+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years of deep domain expertise in vulnerability management or a closely adjacent security discipline.
 * Experience at an early-stage company - you've helped scale and build out processes from scratch, and you're comfortable operating with ambiguity rather than a fully-defined playbook.
 * A track record with enterprise-scale customers - you've worked with CISO/exec-level stakeholders and large deployment teams (e.g., 30-person implementations).
 * Management experience, including having hired and built out a team.
 * Familiarity with APIs - comfortable with API keys, reading/writing data, and validating data in a tool, even though this role doesn't involve writing PRs.
 * Excellent communication skills - able to translate fluently between customer security teams and internal engineering.

## Description

* Scope & Design Solutions - Work directly with customer security teams to understand their environment and design how their Cogent instance should be built and deployed.
 * Bridge Technical & Product - Write clear, actionable tickets that hand off your solution design to engineering for build-out.
 * Own the Technical Relationship - Serve as the technical counterpart to the TAM, speaking the same language as customer security engineers and earning credibility with technical stakeholders up to CISO level.
 * Deploy at Enterprise Scale - Get customers live on Cogent, working with deployment teams that can span dozens of stakeholders on the customer side.
 * Scale our Forward Deployed Motion - Build repeatable scoping and design practices that shrink how much forward-deployed engineering is needed per implementation.
 * Shape What "Good" Looks Like - As an early hire on this team, help define the Solutions Architect function itself as Cogent's post-sales motion scales.


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