Solutions Architect, Streaming (Remote US)

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 25% of the time.

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