Security Engineer
Portland, ORJob$168–198K/yrPosted 5 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Security Engineer works with the sales team and customers to identify security needs, demonstrate Check Point solutions, and develop appropriate security approaches. The role also supports customer and partner education, technical discussions, proof-of-concepts, and responses to RFI and RFP requests. It requires 5+ years of engineering and pre-sales experience and eligibility to work in the US without employer sponsorship.
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Full job description
Why Join Us?
At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation. Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen. This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems. We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture. What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely. If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for
- Work closely with the sales team to identify prospects
- Demonstrate our full portfolio of solutions that help keep organizations safe from threats and protect their operations and information
- Educate customers, prospects and partners on the diversity of technical, operational and business challenges many organizations face and how Check Point solutions can solve them
- Drive meetings with potential and existing customers to identify their problems and provide appropriate solutions
- Address technical questions, offer insight into best practices and manage Proof-of-Concepts
- Respond to RFI's & RFP's
- Engage and educate key partners and customers on the latest security technologies
- Active participation in cybersecurity events
Qualifications
What you bring to the table
- 5+ years of engineering and pre-sales experience
- Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good understanding of typical customers networks
- Ability to create an end-to-end security solution for a customer’s environment
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Relevant certifications highly preferred,1 e.g. CCNP / CISSP/ CCSA / CCSE
- Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future
EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled The wage range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors in determining your pay. We'll consider your location, experience, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The wage disclosure has not been adjusted for applicable geographic differentials associated with the location at which this position may be filled. A reasonable estimate of the current base wage range for this role is $168,000 - $198,000. In addition to the base compensation, certain roles are eligible for additional compensation, including an annual bonus or sales incentive based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Check Point Software Technologies and the country/state where you work. US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock awards and an employee stock purchasing plan.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,080 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$168–198K/yr
- Oregon median$115–202K/yr30 salary ranges
- US median$135–208K/yr3,306 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $183K, is 16% above the Oregon median midpoint ($158K) — in the middle half of Security Engineer salary ranges in Oregon.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Security Engineer jobs in Oregon and 4,080 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,521 postings).
- Education
- 1,378 of the 4,080 open Security Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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