Solutions Architect, Streaming (Remote US) - San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States

Company Description

Join us! DataStax is the company that helps Developers and Companies successfully create a bold new world through GenAI. We offer a One-stop Generative AI Stack with everything needed for a faster, easier, path to production for relevant and responsive GenAI apps. Generative AI has changed everything and this is the moment for you to act! Are you passionate about Gen AI, data and shaping the future? Do you want to help the leading developers and enterprises deliver the experiences that will change lives? Are you energized by solving hard problems with smart people while having fun? Were looking for sharp, innovative individuals to join us in serving our customers. If you're excited about making a valuable and real impact in the world of data and AI - reach out and join us!

Job Description

As a DataStax Architect, you are an expert trusted advisor to our customers as they design, build and operate new technologies that leverage the unique strengths of DataStax software. As a member of the DataStax Professional Services team, it is your mission to make it easy for DataStax customers to use our software to achieve continuous success.

What you will do:

• Work with customers and prospective customers to design performant, resilient, scalable, secure, distributed architectures which can exceed SLAs and are easily maintained.

• Design and test event streaming and data engineering solutions which are pragmatic, performant, and scalable.

• Develop expert understanding of Apache Pulsar from an implementation, development and operational perspective.

• Work with customers to select on-premise hardware or cloud instance types based on workload and capacity assessments.

• Help the customer deploy, configure, secure, maintain, monitor, scale, troubleshoot, test and tune Apache Pulsar deployments.

• Create reference architectures that can be used to solve common requirements in a repeatable way following (and identifying) recommended best practices.

• Collaborate with other roles in DataStax Professional Services, Technical Support, Pre-Sales, Sales, etc. to ensure our customer is successful.

Your experience should include:

• Experience with event streaming and/or messaging platforms such as Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, NATS, or similar.

• RDBMSs and one or more NoSQL databases (DataStax Enterprise/Apache Cassandra, highly preferred)

• Significant experience programming with Java and at least some experience programming with Golang, Python or Node.js

• Understanding of enterprise cloud and on prem deployment approaches (logical understanding of firewalls, network zoning, VPC peering, etc.)

• Strong Linux CLI & Linux System Administration skills

• Application and system performance tuning

• Network infrastructure & IP networking, server hardware, virtualization, containerization

• Distributed application & data processing architectures

• Security considerations for: physical environment, network, server, operating system, database, application, public & private cloud

• Front-end application development

• Common enterprise architecture patterns

• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.

Not sure if you qualify?

Apply anyway! We extend opportunities to a broad array of candidates, including those with diverse workplace experiences and backgrounds. Whether you're new to the corporate world, returning to work after a gap in employment, or simply looking to transition or take the next step in your career path, we are excited to connect with you.

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$196,720-$295,080USD OTE Range