Solutions Architect, Streaming (Remote US)

Company Description

Dear trailblazers, forward-thinkers, and doers - We want you. DataStax is the open, multi-cloud stack for modern data apps. DataStax gives enterprises the freedom of choice, simplicity, and true cloud economics to deploy massive data, delivered via APIs, powering rich interactions on multi-cloud, open source and Kubernetes. We subscribe to a set of principles that guide how we collaboratively work together. We inspire each other with our values, obsessing over users and enterprises, taking action and focusing on results, innovating in technology, products, and everything we do, and defining success as the team winning. We foster a diverse working environment that is respectful, generates new ideas, promotes ownership, and encourages highly motivated individuals to shape tomorrow. These form the foundation of DataStax's culture and help drive our decisions.

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.

If this motivates you, we'd love to hear from you!

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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