Principal Solutions Architect

Position:
Principal Solutions Architect

Company:
Solo.io

Location:
United States

Employment type:
Remote

Short Summary:
As an AI Solutions Architect at Solo.io, you'll be the technical heartbeat of our most strategic customer relationships, owning their success as they build the next generation of AI and agentic platforms on our products.

Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a small portfolio of strategic accounts, developing deep familiarity with their use cases, architecture, teams, and business goals.
- Lead technical issue resolution end-to-end, partnering with Support and Engineering on escalations and driving root-cause analysis.
- Provide hands-on troubleshooting within your accounts where it accelerates resolution and deepens customer trust.
- Guide customers as they extend Solo.io products to support modern workloads, including AI and agentic use cases.
- Proactively drive product adoption by identifying new use cases and surfacing opportunities for customers to gain more value from the Solo.io product suite.
- Consult with customers on architectural best practices, performance tuning, and operational excellence in their Solo.io deployments.
- Design and deliver tailored training sessions, workshops, and enablement content to grow customer self-sufficiency.
- Champion the customer inside Solo.io, translating their needs into actionable feedback for Product Management and Engineering.
- Partner with the account team to identify and manage technical risk, renewal health, and expansion opportunities.

Requirement:
- 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Architect, Customer Success Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Senior Support Engineer.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, service mesh, and API gateways and proxies.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies.
- Proven track record managing technical relationships with large, strategic enterprise customers in a post-sales context.
- Excellent troubleshooting instincts and the ability to navigate complex, multi-team production environments.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Comfort with scripting or programming for diagnostics, automation, and reference implementations.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent industry experience.

Benefits:
- Collaborative work culture focused on innovation and customer success.
- Opportunities for hands-on education and technology solutions.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.