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Senior Solutions Architect

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-11 North America Hybrid Human Resources Recruitment
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market US$14,166–US$20,833/mo

About the Company

Senior Solutions Architect - AMER We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.

About the Role

We are looking for a customer-centric Senior Solutions Architect to promote using Aiven's managed open-source services. An ideal candidate will be passionate about open-source technology and genuinely want to help customers in a pre-sales and post-sales capacity. Suitable candidates must have proven experience in one or more of the following areas that will be required in their day-to-day job: Apache Kafka, Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, or Redis. The position is full-time and permanent, located in the West Coast preferred.

Responsibilities

  • ● Help customers succeed, building successful relationships from pre-sales stage to roll out and beyond
  • ● Conduct successful proof of concepts and solve the customers' problems in getting up and running
  • ● Actively contribute to customer stability, enablement, and growth
  • ● Be an active contributor during the sales process as well as to our existing customers
  • ● Be an ambassador for Aiven by various means, such as writing technical blogs, conducting webinars, sponsoring meetups, or technical talks at conferences
  • ● Travel up to 20% of the time
  • ● Fluency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, Go or Ruby
  • ● Strong ability to translate complex technical jargon into clear, persuasive business value for non-technical buyers.
  • ● Knowledgeable of public clouds (AWS, Google, or Azure) and in the areas of compute, storage - block and object, networking, and security groups
  • ● Linux operating system; demonstrable experience using various Linux utilities and tools (installation, securing system, storage, etc.) and a good grasp of networking basics like DNS
  • ● Strong understanding with search-engine ecosystems (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Lucene).
  • ● Hands-on experience with streaming frameworks: Proficiency with tools like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, or AWS Kinesis.
  • ● Understanding storage systems: Familiarity with distributed storage, NoSQL databases, and data lakes.
  • ● Attention to detail and good problem-solving and project management skills
  • ● Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work well with cross-functional teams
  • ● Relationship Building: Capability to build trust quickly and maintain strong relationships with both internal sales reps and external clients.
  • ● Amazing What's next:
  • ● If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we'll get in touch
  • ● Global Benefits:
  • ● Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally: