We are Aiven—a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We create managed cloud services from the best open source technologies that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers to power their next-gen event streaming and analytics applications. Backed by Europe's leading investors, we’re now looking for top talent to join us in our headquarters in Helsinki and our new offices in Boston, Berlin and Sydney.

NOTE: This role is now only open for USA. All other locations are closed.

We are looking for Solutions Architects who are Consulting oriented to help customers utilize Aiven's managed open source services. An ideal candidate will be passionate about (open source) technology and genuinely want to help customers in a pre-sales and post-sales capacity. The candidate will be joining Aiven's technical sales team in one of - USA (Boston or remote). Suitable candidates must have demonstrable experience in the following areas that will be required in their day-to-day job:(Aiven services: Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, InfluxDB and Grafana)

General requirements

• Conduct successful proof of concepts

• Be an ambassador for Aiven

• Travel up to 25% of the time

Consulting skills

• Understand customers’ technical requirements at an architectural level and propose solutions to address them using Aiven’s services

• Break down solution to customers’ technical requirements into smaller more manageable components and be prepared to implement some of the components to interface with Aiven services

• Ability to implement software solutions as needed in either pre-sales and/or post-sales capacity to interface with Aiven services in order to address business requirements

• Fluency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go or, Ruby

Technical skills

• Linux operating system

  • Demonstrable experience using various Linux utilities and tools (installation, securing system, storage, etc)

  • DNS and Networking basics

• A fairly deep conceptual understanding of Kafka and at least one of Cassandra or Elasticsearch.

• Demonstrable use of a Relational databases preferably PostgreSQL and/or MySQL

• Familiarity with one or more public clouds preferably AWS, Google or, Azure and in the areas of compute, storage - block and object, networking, and security groups

• Act as a subject matter expert on Aiven service offerings

Required qualifications:

• At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar discipline) or, an equivalent amount of professional experience in software engineering

The following are nice to have:

• Writing technical blogs

• Giving talks at conferences and meetups

• Customer relationship management.

  • Converting prospects to paying customers

  • Expanding Aiven service footprint after initial sale

  • Helping customers succeed

What we offer:

• A dynamic startup environment with a rapidly growing international business

• A competitive compensation and benefits package that includes stock options at an early stage startup

(NOTE: US applicants should be either US citizens or US Green Card holders)

You will be part of a highly-skilled, tight-knit team of around 40 people, making your contribution essential to what is becoming a great success story.