Deep hands-on technical experience as an engineer, ideally security engineer with cloud or application security background. Understand how code is built, CI/CD pipelines, cloud architectures, and application security concepts. Specific experience with cloud security or application security domain. Collaborative mindset, working with engineering teams as partners. Comfort building in ambiguous environments and creating something from scratch. Ability to quickly learn technical concepts and operate effectively in a startup. Commercial thinking, understanding success measured by ARR growth and POC conversion. Willingness to spend time with customers understanding workflows and challenges.