Lead Partner, Sales Engineer (Public Sector)

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Lead Sales Engineer, Partner (Public Sector) 

Location: Washington, D.C. / Northern Virginia / Remote U.S. (Public Sector territory) 

Black Duck Software delivers True Scale Application Security, empowering organizations to build and deploy secure, high-quality software at speed. Our unified AppSec platform—spanning SAST, SCA, and DAST—helps development teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities across proprietary code, open-source components, and AI generated code throughout the SDLC. 

We support customers across federal, state, and local agencies, as well as the specialized partner ecosystem that serves them. 

Position Overview 

As a key member of our Public Sector Partner Sales organization, the Sales Engineer, Partner (Public Sector) will drive the technical strategy, enablement, and success of our partner ecosystem—including resellers, systems integrators, and technology partners operating across federal, state, and local government markets. 

You will be the technical bridge between Black Duck and our partners: enabling their teams, supporting joint pursuits, guiding solution architecture, and ensuring partners can confidently represent and differentiate Black Duck solutions. 

This role is ideal for a technically strong, relationship-oriented, presales professional who thrives in a partner-driven environment. 

 Key Responsibilities 

Partner Enablement & Technical Strategy 

• Enable public sector partners to position, demo, and architect Black Duck solutions 

• Deliver technical training sessions, hands-on workshops, and solution certifications 

• Guide partners on best practices for AppSec integration in government environments 

• Collaborate with partner account managers to support joint territory planning 

• Solution Architecture & Technical Expertise 

• Communicate technical value and competitive differentiation across partner organizations 

• Provide architecture guidance related to SAST, SCA, DAST, DevSecOps, and CI/CD integration 

• Advise partners on addressing compliance requirements for federal, state, and local agencies 

Industry & Ecosystem Engagement 

• Stay current on trends in public sector cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and AppSec in general 

• Represent Black Duck at partner events, government technology forums, and security conferences 

• Act as a trusted advisor to partner engineering teams and technical leadership 

  Key Requirements 

• U.S. Citizenship required 

• 8+ years of experience in sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales, ideally with a focus on AppSec or DevSecOps 

• Located in Washington DC Metro area (ideally).  Will consider remote for the right candidate, with regular travel. 

• Frequent travel to in person meeting, partner, and industry events  

• Proven experience working with public sector partners, resellers, or systems integrators 

• Experience supporting federal, state, or local government technology programs 

• Familiarity with public sector frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST 80053, 800171, FedRAMP, DISA STIGs) 

• Strong knowledge of application security tools and concepts (SAST, SCA, DAST) 

• Ability to engage both highly technical audiences and executive-level stakeholders 

• Familiarity with common software development languages and eco systems ((C/C++, Java, .NET, scripting languages) 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and modern SDLC workflows (i.e. GitHub, GitLab) 

• Excellent communication, presentation, and partner relationship-building skills 

• Strong problem-solving abilities with a consultative, partner-first mindset 
• Self-starter with the drive to independently build, grow relationships and act without detailed guidance. 

Why This Role 

As a Lead Sales Engineer on the Public Sector team, you’ll play a key role in how government customers evaluate, adopt, and scale application security programs. You’ll have meaningful influence over technical strategy, customer success, and how Black Duck shows up in some of the most complex and mission‑critical software environments. 

This is not a support or enablement role—you’ll be on the front lines with customers, shaping outcomes and driving impact.  

If you thrive in customer‑facing roles, enjoy influencing outcomes, and want to drive meaningful impact across the public sector, we’d love to hear from you.

The base salary range across the U.S for this role is between $141,200-$211,800 (OTE: $ 176,500 - 264,750 - Uncapped). Black Duck offers a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education.

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.