Customer Success Engineer
About the job
About Us
WitnessAI is a leader in securing LLMs and humans in the AI age. We're passionate about helping our customers succeed, and we're looking for a Customer Success Engineer (CSE) who thrives at the intersection of technical expertise and customer engagement.
Role Overview
As a Customer Success Engineer with a strong background in network security, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our customers are successful in deploying, integrating, and maximizing the value of our security platform. You’ll act as a trusted advisor, technical resource, and problem solver throughout the customer lifecycle—from onboarding to expansion.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Onboarding & Integration: Guide new customers through deployment, configuration, and best practices tailored to their network security environments.
Technical Support & Troubleshooting: Serve as a technical point of contact for advanced support issues, helping customers resolve complex network or security-related challenges.
Customer Advocacy: Build strong relationships and understand customer goals, proactively identifying opportunities to improve their experience and adoption.
Training & Enablement: Deliver product training sessions and create technical resources (e.g., guides, runbooks, videos) to empower customer teams.
Feedback Loop: Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to relay customer feedback, feature requests, and bug reports.
Security Expertise: Act as a subject matter expert in networking and AI security concepts—firewalls, proxies, jailbreaks, unethical usage and data leakage.
Account Health Monitoring: Track usage metrics and signals to identify risks and opportunities across your customer portfolio.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
3+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (Customer Success, Support, Pre-Sales, or Solutions Engineering).
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, firewalls, IDS/IPS, Zero Trust, etc.
Strong understanding of common enterprise technologies and architectures
Hands-on experience with firewalls and/or proxies (e.g., Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Zscaler, Netskope, Fortinet).
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience working in fast-paced SaaS or cybersecurity environments.
Familiarity with SSO, authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth), and cloud security practices is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
Relevant security certifications
Experience with supporting or working with cybersecurity teams.
Prior experience supporting enterprise or global customers.
Prior startup experience
Benefits:
Hybrid work environment
Competitive salary.
Health, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) plan.
Opportunities for professional development and growth.
Generous vacation policy.
Salary Range:
$160,000 - $200,000
