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Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Product Technical Architect at Wiz plays a pivotal role in shaping cloud security solutions by owning critical technology domains and addressing complex customer challenges. This position requires deep expertise in areas like Cloud IAM, Kubernetes, and network security, alongside hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Ideal candidates are seasoned professionals capable of leading technical initiatives and engaging directly with clients to tailor solutions. The role is part of an elite team within a rapidly growing startup, emphasizing innovation and collaboration.
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Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, C++, Cloud IAM, GCP, Java.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Wiz targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Product Technical Architect, CTO Office role at Wiz.
From the original posting
Come join the organization that is redefining security for the AI era. As one of the fastest-growing startups ever, we enable teams to secure cloud and AI applications by connecting code, cloud, and runtime into a single shared context. Trusted by security teams all over the world, we have a proven track record of success and a culture that values world-class talent. Not to mention, we're now powered by Google, meaning we offer our customers an AI-powered platform that harnesses Google’s Threat Intelligence and Security Operations to better detect, prevent, and respond to threats across all environments, allowing for further innovation.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience with software development.
- Experience taking production solutions from conception to launch and architecting AI systems on cloud platforms.
- Deep, authoritative knowledge in a specific complex domain such as Cloud IAM, Kubernetes & Containers, Network Security, SAST, or core Scan Engine architecture.
- Hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP experience, specifically regarding Cloud Identity, Access, Certificates, and Keys.
- Extensive experience in B2B / Enterprise customer-facing technical roles, leading complex discovery sessions, architectural reviews, and technical escalations with large-scale organizations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Track record of building a successful solution architecture team, or leading large-scale technical initiatives.
- Independent and with the ability to lead projects from start to finish.
- Strong interpersonal skills, capable of delivering world-class deployment and delivery experience.
- Background as a Product Manager or Software Engineer with experience in SaaS environments, traditional CSPM tools, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and network security.
- Knowledge of risk-based security assessments and frameworks.
- Extensive Cloud Security experience.
About The Job
We are seeking a Product Technical Architect to join our CTO Experts team, an exclusive and global group. Our mission is to spread the power of Wiz by mastering the product inside and out, guiding the world's leading cloud security teams to secure their cloud using an entirely new security approach. This role combines deep technical ownership with hands-on execution, driving product innovation and strategic influence while serving as a key bridge between Product, R&D, and customers, ensuring our technical strategy is aligned with market needs and innovative possibilities.
Responsibilities
- Own a critical product technology domain and serve as the top technical authority for product architecture, complex escalations, and field challenges.
- Architect and code the connective tissue between Wiz products and customer's complex, live Enterprise infrastructure.
- Proactively identify customer needs and product limitations, and develop tools, automations, analytical engines, and Proofs-of-Concept to address them.
- Work closely with the world's leading cloud security teams, meeting directly with strategic customers to understand their challenges and architect bespoke solutions.
- Build evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to ensure agentic systems meet requirements for accuracy, safety, and latency.
- Leverage product acumen to identify repeatable field patterns and friction points, converting them into reusable modules, architecture blueprints, or formal product feature requests for the Engineering teams.
- Co-build with customer engineering teams to instill Wiz best practices, ensuring long-term project success and high end-user adoption.
- Formalize product knowledge for internal and external reference and build knowledge for customers and field technical experts.
- Solve complex problems hands-on daily, including modeling customer environments, writing scripts, proving tests, building dashboards, and implementing product improvements.
Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country where the position is based, without the need for visa sponsorship. This role does not offer visa sponsorship.
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