Senior Solutions Architect

About RisingWave

RisingWave is a next-generation cloud-native streaming database that makes real-time data processing simple, affordable, and highly scalable. Teams use RisingWave to build continuous, low-latency pipelines and power real-time dashboards, AI/ML features, and business-critical analytics — all with familiar SQL. Our customers span financial services, digital natives, gaming, manufacturing, and more.

About the Role

As a
Solution Architect
, you’ll be the trusted technical advisor for our North American customers, guiding them from discovery to production adoption. You’ll lead technical evaluations, design streaming architectures, and deliver successful Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) that demonstrate the value of RisingWave in real-world scenarios.

You will collaborate closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure customers achieve tangible outcomes — whether that’s reducing latency from seconds to milliseconds, enabling real-time analytics for millions of events, or powering AI/ML pipelines with fresh data.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to run discovery, define success criteria, design solutions, execute PoC/PoV plans, and deliver executive readouts.
• Design scalable, low-latency architectures integrating RisingWave with streaming platforms (Kafka/Pulsar, optionally NATS), OLTP/OLAP systems, and lakehouse/object storage sinks.
• Advise on data modeling, partitioning, CDC/schema evolution, and performance optimization.
• Benchmark and troubleshoot pipelines end-to-end (ingest, process, serve) across latency, throughput, and stability.
• Build reusable demos, reference architectures, and technical content for common use cases (CDC, IoT, fraud detection, log analytics, personalization).
• Lead technical qualification: assess use-case fit, data sources, volume/velocity, latency/throughput SLAs, integration surfaces (Kafka/Pulsar, CDC, sinks), security/compliance constraints, and deployment options — documenting risks, assumptions, and next steps.
• Represent RisingWave at customer workshops, webinars, and meetups; channel field feedback to Product and Engineering.
• Support RFPs, security/compliance reviews, and technical due diligence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in
  Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Technical Consulting
  .
• 3+ years hands-on with
  data streaming/analytics or event-driven architectures
  .
• Proficiency in
  SQL
  and at least one of
  Python/Java/Go/Bash
  .
• Experience with
  Apache Kafka
  ; familiarity with
  Flink
  or similar streaming frameworks.
• Familiarity with CDC frameworks (Debezium, Kafka Connect) and data formats (Avro/Protobuf/JSON).
• Experience with
  Kubernetes
  and major clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure); working understanding of cloud networking/security patterns (e.g., VPC peering/PrivateLink, IAM).
• Experience with
  high-availability, high-performance
  data systems.
• Strong communication skills for both engineering deep dives and executive storytelling.
• Eligibility: Right to work in the
  United States or Canada
  .

Nice to Have

• Domain exposure: fintech, gaming, IoT, adtech/martech.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Apache Iceberg and modern lakehouse architectures (Delta/Hudi welcome).
• Cloud/data engineering certifications.

Why Join Us

• At RisingWave, you’ll work at the forefront of real-time streaming innovation. You’ll help customers unlock the power of their data, shape the product roadmap, and represent a technology that’s redefining what’s possible in real-time analytics. You’ll be part of a collaborative, global team that values technical excellence, curiosity, and making a measurable impact.