# Solutions Architect, Bay Area at Aerospike

- Company: Aerospike
- What the company does: Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://aerospike.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/aerospike-inc/jobs/859f6a20-c363-4f5f-9c9f-01de88a8b204
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aerospike-solutions-architect-bay-area/

## About the role

Aerospike is looking for a technically sharp, enterprise-focused Solutions Architect to help drive adoption and shape the technical vision of our blazing-fast, real-time data platform across North America. In this high-impact pre-sales role, you’ll partner closely with account teams and executive stakeholders to lead architecture design, translate complex enterprise requirements into scalable blueprints, and prove clear, compelling value for our prospective customers.

## What they're looking for

- Engineer for advantage: Lead technical discovery and design creative, multi-region architectures that solve demanding data, scale, latency, and resilience requirements
- Master the data plane: Bring deep expertise in databases, distributed systems, data platforms, and high-throughput workloads—and make complex technology decisions clear to every audience
- Sell the architecture and the outcome: Connect technical choices to business value, competitive differentiation, ROI, and the customer’s broader data strategy
- Create conviction through proof: Design and lead rigorous POCs, benchmarks, whiteboarding sessions, demos, and architecture reviews that validate performance, scalability, and business impact
- Be the technical deal strategist: Partner tightly with Account Executives to shape deal strategy, multi-thread stakeholders, neutralize architectural risk, and advance complex opportunities
- Unblock with ingenuity: Diagnose hard customer problems, develop practical solutions, and turn technical objections into reasons to buy

Tags: Sales