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Technical Marketing Engineer

Cylake · Sunnyvale · On-site

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About Cylake

Cylake is the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments. Backed by Greylock and Lightspeed.

About the role

Join a small team building the next generation of Cyber Security products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success, you will play a critical role in bridging engineering, product management, and field teams. As a Technical Marketing Engineer, you will architect hands-on lab environments, showcase product value through technical content, and serve as a deep technical liaison between Product Management and the market.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME), Solutions Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Technical Sales Engineer within the cybersecurity domain
  • Proven experience building, configuring, and maintaining multi-vendor enterprise lab environments, POC frameworks, and cloud/network infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid setups)
  • Strong track record of authoring customer-facing technical documentation, whitepapers, video walkthroughs, and architecture guides
  • Hands-on technical background with enterprise IT tooling, REST APIs, scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash), security workflows, and integration patterns
  • Deep understanding of the competitive cybersecurity landscape, enterprise deployment topologies, and customer pain points
  • Experience collaborating directly with Product Management to test feature capabilities, validate technical requirements, and provide actionable feedback
More about this role

Join a small team building the next generation of Cyber Security products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success, you will play a critical role in bridging engineering, product management, and field teams. As a Technical Marketing Engineer, you will architect hands-on lab environments, showcase product value through technical content, and serve as a deep technical liaison between Product Management and the market. You will have the opportunity to grow your career, technical domain expertise, and cross-functional impact from the very start.

You will own the technical validation, field enablement, and hands-on technical narrative for our next-generation cybersecurity platform. In this role, you'll build production-grade lab and demo environments that translate complex platform capabilities into compelling proofs of value. You will sit at the intersection of product development and go-to-market execution—crafting deep technical content, training internal field teams, and working alongside Product Management to evaluate real-world use cases. The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical/lab-building expertise with strong communication...

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