Senior Demo Engineer
SUMMARY
As a Senior Demo Engineer,you will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable demo environments that showcase our platform capabilities. You’ll focus on using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation to ensure reliable, repeatable, and cost-efficient deployments that support sales, marketing, and product initiatives.
This role is hands-on, emphasizing infrastructure automation and operational excellence over demo design. You’ll collaborate with Product, Field Engineering, and Product Marketing to ensure our demo systems are always up-to-date, performant, and easily deployable.
Impact
Your work ensures that demo environments are always ready for use, resilient under load, and easy to deploy on-demand. You’ll help reduce setup time, improve reliability, and enable field teams to focus on delivering impactful demos rather than maintaining infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable demo environments using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions and GitOps processes.
- Translate objectives and goals from product and field teams into hands-on labs, demos, and event scenarios.
- Write and maintain setup scripts (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, user-data) and configure demo assets for repeatable deployment.
- Document environment designs and dependencies
- Collaborate with architects, product SMEs, and field engineers throughout the ideation and development process.
- Identify and communicate risks, limitations, or architectural gaps discovered during prototyping.
Core Competencies
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expert proficiency with tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar.
- Scripting & Version Control: Strong skills in Git, Linux, and automation scripting (Bash, PowerShell).
- CI/CD & Automation: Deep experience with continuous integration and deployment workflows.
- Cloud Architecture: High-level understanding of networking, IAM, and secure cloud reference architectures.
- Cloud Platforms: Proficient in at least one major public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Full Stack Development: Hands-on experience with technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, databases, and message queues.
Ideal Candidate
Our team seeks a highly motivated and skilled Cloud Infrastructure enthusiast, a self-starter with the technical expertise to lead critical multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code projects, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. Candidates should possess a minimum of three years of experience in GitOps practices and Terraform deployments within multi-cloud environments.
Key Qualities
- Self-Motivated & Proactive: Owns tasks, identifies priorities, and drives to completion independently.
- Resilience under Pressure: Thrives in demanding, high-pressure environments, handling deadlines and challenges effectively and calmly.
- Problem-Solver: Analytical, persistent, and solution-oriented for complex infrastructure issues.Technical Expertise and Experience
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Home Office Setup reimbursement
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Monthly Connectivity reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Financial Benefits
- Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (with employer match)
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off + 11 paid holidays
- Paid leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical and bereavement leave
Compensation
Starting compensation will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate's job-related experience, skills and geographic location. Your Talent Partner can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
This role is eligible to participate in Wiz’s equity plan and may also include incentive compensation.
The annual base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
US Base Pay Range
$176,000—$264,000 USD