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title: 'Associate Solutions Architect at Salt Security'
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# Associate Solutions Architect at Salt Security

- **Company:** Salt Security
- **Location:** Central United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://salt.security/job-board?gh_jid=5265030007

## Job description

## About Salt Security

Salt Security is the leader in agentic and API security, protecting the world's most innovative enterprises from AI agent and API attacks. Agentic security is the practice of discovering and governing the relationships between LLMs, MCP servers, and the APIs that let AI agents take action. The Salt Security Agentic Security Platform secures the full agentic ecosystem, discovering all agents, MCP connections, and APIs, stopping attacks in real time, and eliminating vulnerabilities before they reach production. Salt Security was founded in 2016 and is backed by Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Tenaya Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Advent International, and other leading investors. For more information, visit salt.security.

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving diverse challenges.

Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!

## About the Role

We are looking for a motivated and technically curious Associate Solutions Architect to join our growing team.

In this role, you'll work closely with our Sales and Solutions Architecture teams to help customers understand the value of Salt Security's API security platform. You'll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge cybersecurity technology while developing your technical, communication, and customer-facing skills.

This is a great opportunity for someone early in their technical career who enjoys solving problems, learning new technologies, and working with customers.

## What You'll Do

- Support Solutions Architects throughout the technical implementation process, including product deployment, technical discovery, architecture design and proof-of-value (POV) engagements.
- Help customers understand API security challenges and how Salt Security can address their needs.
- Assist with platform deployments, integrations, and technical evaluations.
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to deliver a positive customer and prospect experience.
- Develop technical knowledge of APIs, cloud environments, application security, and Salt Security's platform.
- Prepare technical presentations, documentation, and demonstration environments.
- Troubleshoot technical questions and help identify solutions during customer evaluations.
- Continuously learn and stay current with cybersecurity technologies and industry trends.

## What We're Looking For

- 1–3 years of experience in a technical role such as Solutions Engineering, Technical Support, Software Engineering, IT, or Cybersecurity.
- Basic understanding of APIs, REST, HTTP, and web application architecture.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong technical curiosity and a passion for cybersecurity.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach.
- Kubernetes or other container experience.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Self-motivated, eager to learn, and comfortable taking ownership.

Why Join Salt Security?

- Work with innovative technology in one of the most important areas of cybersecurity.
- Learn from experienced Solutions Architects and cybersecurity professionals.
- Gain hands-on experience working with enterprise customers.
- Be part of a supportive, collaborative, and growing global team.
- Build a strong foundation for a long-term career in Solutions Architecture and cybersecurity.

At Salt Security, we value curiosity, ownership, collaboration, and people who are excited to make an impact.

## About Salt Security

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cybersecurity (API security, Agentic AI security)
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises and global organizations
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To be the global leader in Agentic Security.”

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Security Platform**: End-to-end platform that maps every agent, MCP server, and API into an “Agentic Security Graph” to provide discovery, posture management, and runtime protection.
- **API Posture Governance**: Enforces custom corporate standards for API compliance throughout the lifecycle.
- **Behavioral Threat Detection**: Uses ML/AI to establish a baseline of legitimate API behavior and detect anomalies including “low and slow” attacks.
- **Sensitive Data Exposure Prevention**: Identifies exposed sensitive data across APIs, including proprietary data types.
- **Agentic Discovery**: Automatically discovers all AI agents, MCP servers, shadow APIs, and zombie APIs across the environment.
- **Runtime Protection**: Real-time detection of abuse, anomalous behavior, and active attacks across the full agentic stack (LLMs, MCP servers, APIs).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (company is private; Crunchbase tags it as a “Unicorn”)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – not disclosed; last round was a Venture – Series Unknown in September 2022
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by 18 investors including **CrowdStrike Falcon Fund** and **Sequoia Capital**. Also listed as “backed by the best” on the company site.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount estimated at 101–250 (Crunchbase); founded in 2018 and now considered a unicorn; recognized as the “world leader in Agentic Security”; Salt Labs is the first and only API-dedicated global research organization.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic Security Graph**: A holistic view that contextualizes risk across LLMs, MCP servers, and APIs – a unique approach that no other platform offers.
- **Deep API Security Heritage**: Eight years of dedicated API security research, with the Salt Labs team having discovered more API vulnerabilities than all other teams combined.
- **Full Lifecycle Coverage**: From discovery to posture management to runtime protection, covering the entire agentic stack in one platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI Security**: Prioritizing the security of AI agents, MCP servers, and the APIs they interact with as enterprises rapidly adopt AI.
- **Expanding Discovery & Protection**: Continuously improving the ability to detect shadow and zombie APIs, as well as new agentic components.
- **Industry Leadership**: Driving standards and awareness through Salt Labs research and responsible disclosure.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes five core values: “Make it easy,” “Move with speed. Get it done,” “One team,” “It’s all about our customers,” and “Keep it positive. Focus on the solution.”
- **Work Environment**: Collaborative, transparent, and aligned. “We win as a team.” Speed is considered a business strategy.
- **Location & Flexibility**: Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The careers page does not explicitly state remote/hybrid policy, but the company appears to operate in-office/hybrid given its Palo Alto location.
- **Growth Opportunity**: As a fast-growing unicorn in the cutting-edge space of agentic AI security, employees work on high-impact problems with a clear mission. The company is actively hiring across multiple roles.

## Sources
1. [salt.security](https://salt.security/)
2. [salt.security/about-us](https://salt.security/about-us)
3. [salt.security/careers](https://salt.security/careers)
4. [salt.security/job-board](https://salt.security/job-board)
5. [crunchbase.com/organization/saltsecurity](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/saltsecurity)

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