Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Act as the main technical partner and consultant for prospects and clients assessing or expanding their use of ClickHouse.

• Collaborate with Sales throughout the entire process, from identifying technical needs to large-scale production deployment.

• Create reference architectures, data models, and ingestion/query patterns customized for customer scenarios, scale, and current data environments.

• Take ownership of and conduct technical proofs of concept and performance benchmarks.

• Showcase ClickHouse's performance, scalability, and cost benefits compared to existing solutions.

• Work alongside Account Executives on technical account strategies, procurement and security assessments, and closing complex deals.

• Present technical demonstrations, workshops, and presentations to engineers and high-level stakeholders, including VP/C-level executives.

• Guide customers on schema design, query optimization, cluster sizing, replication, and strategies for database migration.

• Share structured customer feedback with product and engineering teams regarding gaps, feature requests, and competitive positioning.

• Develop reusable assets such as demos, blog posts, reference architectures, and sample applications.

• Contribute to the development of team best practices, tools, and onboarding resources.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in a customer-facing technical position, such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Data Engineer, or Technical Consultant.

• Ideally, experience within an infrastructure, database, or analytics organization.

• Extensive hands-on experience with SQL and analytical/OLAP databases, including ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Druid, Vertica, or Redshift.

• Strong grasp of distributed systems principles, including partitioning, replication, consistency trade-offs, and large-scale query execution.

• Proficiency working with streaming systems like Kafka, orchestration tools, BI applications, and cloud infrastructures such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Proven ability to influence purchasing decisions through technical evaluations against competitive options.

• Exceptional communication skills for collaborating with engineers and presenting to executives.

• Self-motivated individual comfortable with ambiguity and hands-on technical tasks linked to revenue results.

• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer meetings, conferences, and team gatherings.

• Direct experience deploying or managing ClickHouse in production is a valuable asset.

• Experience with real-time analytics, observability, or large-scale event/log data applications is beneficial.

• Contributions to open-source data infrastructure initiatives are a plus.

• Previous experience at an early-stage or rapidly growing startup is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Equity in the company; all new team members receive stock options.

• Employer contributions to healthcare plans.

• Flexible time off policy in the US.

• Generous time-off policies in other countries.

• USD$500 allowance for home office setup for remote employees.

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues during company-wide offsite events.

• Flexible working environment.

• Remote-friendly, distributed culture.