Sales Engineer (Pre-sales) - Hybride NYC at Escape (W23)
$150K - $200K
The only DAST that works with modern stack and tests business logic
New York, NY, US
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
3+ years
About Escape

Escape fits right into your modern stack and helps teams secure modern applications— Document all your APIs & front-end applications in minutes and discover vulnerabilities even at a business logic level with our proprietary AI-powered algorithm.

About the role

We’re building an AI-powered code-to-cloud security platform covering Attack Surface Management, automated pentesting, and DAST. With 25+ people, offices in NYC & Paris, and a recent $18M Series A, we’re scaling our team and looking for mid–senior Sales Engineers to join our pre-sales efforts.

As a Sales Engineer at Escape, you’ll be the technical bridge between our customers, AEs, and engineering team, helping close commercial deals by showcasing how our platform solves real-world security challenges. You’ll play a key role in shaping customer success, delivering demos, running POCs, and providing technical expertise.

What You’ll Do:

  • Partner with Account Executives and Engineering to drive commercial wins in pre-sales engagements.
  • Configure, demo, and guide customers through the platform, ensuring a smooth technical experience.
  • Gather customer feedback, educate on best practices, and advise on optimal use of the product.
  • Identify opportunities for product improvement and provide insights to our Product & Engineering teams.
  • Occasionally support on-site visits, workshops, and POCs at customer offices or conferences.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Experience: 3+ years in a deep tech environment; consulting experience is a plus.

  • Technical Skills: Strong understanding of SaaS/software products; Python required, back-end engineering a plus.

  • Customer Focus: Passion for helping clients succeed, with excellent communication skills.

  • Proactive Problem-Solver: Able to independently troubleshoot technical challenges.

  • Team Player: Collaborates seamlessly with sales, product, and engineering teams.

  • Startup Enthusiast: Excited to contribute in a fast-growing, high-impact AI security startup.

    If you’re a technically strong, client-facing engineer who loves pre-sales strategy and commercial impact, we’d love to meet you!

🤓 1 profiling meeting with the Hiring Manager – 30 minutes

🤔 1 Technical Challenge at home

👋 1 Meeting the CSM team - 1 hour

👋 Panel Interview with CEO and CTO – 1 hour

  • 💌 Formal hiring proposal
Technology

Escape relies on state-of-the-art Research & Development

Escape relies on a robust, feedback-driven exploration algorithm to understand your applications' business logic. Within a few seconds, Escape can generate legitimate request sequences with payloads that adhere to business logic in a fully automated manner.

This is Escape’s key differentiator, enabling fast, in-depth security scanning with outstanding coverage. Escape requires no manual configuration, input traffic data, or an agent.

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