Staff Solutions Architect - Data Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers during pre-sales to understand needs, design solutions, and position Onehouse effectively.
• Drive technical onboarding for enterprise customers, sometimes directly, sometimes by guiding a team.
• Lead incident response and resolution for customer-facing escalations, ensuring transparency and trust throughout the process.
• Build demos, solution guides, and technical content for sales and marketing enablement.
• Contribute to the open source community and represent Onehouse at industry events.
• Develop high-leverage internal tooling, frameworks, and content to scale the solutions engineering function.
• Mentor other Solutions Engineers and broader GTM team members.
• Analyze recurring pain points and partner with Engineering and Product teams to influence roadmap direction.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working directly with customers on technical engagements.
• 8+ years of experience with major cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• 5+ years of deep experience with Apache Spark and knowledge on Spark’s runtime internals, query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting and debugging Spark solutions.
• Extensive technical experience building, operating, and troubleshooting diverse data engineering pipelines with tools like Kafka, Flink, Presto/Trino, DBT, Airflow, Parquet.

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills being able to synthesize technical topics for both executive and technical stakeholders.
• Prominent track record of cross-functional collaboration and leadership without authority.
• Experience with modern data lakehouse technologies like Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
• Strong opinions on how the future of open data infrastructure should be built and the skills to influence it.

Skills

• Experience in contributing to an open source project.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation; the estimated base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000
• Equity Compensation; our success is your success with eligible participation in our company equity plan
• Health & Well-being; we'll invest in your physical and mental well-being with up to 90% health coverage (50% for spouses/dependents) including comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits
• Financial Future; we'll invest in your financial well-being by making this role eligible to contribute to our company 401(k) or Roth 401(k) retirement plan
• Location; we are a remote-friendly company (internationally distributed across N. America + India), though some roles will be subject to in-person requirements in alignment with the needs of the business
• Generous Time Off; unlimited PTO (mandatory 1 week/year minimum), uncapped sick days and 11 paid company holidays
• Company Camaraderie; Annual company offsites and Quarterly team onsites @Sunnyvale HQ
• Food & Meal Allowance; weekly lunch stipend, in-office snacks/drinks
• Equipment; we'll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $500 stipend for your initial desk setup
• Child Bonding!; 8 weeks off for parents (birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, foster, child placement, new guardianship) - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition

Pay

Competitive Compensation; the estimated base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000

Schedule

We are a remote-friendly company (internationally distributed across N. America + India), though some roles will be subject to in-person requirements in alignment with the needs of the business.