[Hiring] Solutions Architect @Restate

Role Description

We're looking for our first Solutions Architect to help bring vision into production. You'll work directly with our customers, helping them build exciting products with durable execution. You'll also help shape the future of Restate by bringing customer insights back to the team, influencing the product roadmap, and sharing what you're learning with the broader developer community through talks, demos, and other evangelism efforts.

If you enjoy distributed systems, infrastructure, and solving difficult engineering problems alongside other engineers, we'd love to talk.

What You'll Do

• Architect & build
• Design production architectures with engineering teams
• Help solve problems around:
  • state
  • messaging
  • orchestration
  • failure handling
• Build prototypes, integrations, and reference implementations
• Guide teams from evaluation through production
• Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and infrastructure issues
• Shape Restate:
  • Bring technical feedback directly to engineering and product
  • Turn recurring challenges into tooling, documentation, and best practices
  • Contribute to technical demos, talks, and developer content

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering or solutions architecture background
• Experience with distributed, backend, or event-driven systems
• Strong understanding of system architecture and reliability
• Experience with a backend language such as Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, Rust, or C++
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and/or Kubernetes
• Ability to dive into code and troubleshoot technical issues

Requirements

• Distributed databases, messaging systems, workflow engines, or infrastructure software
• Kubernetes, networking, observability, or cloud architecture
• AI infrastructure or production AI applications
• Rust or other systems programming experience
• Open-source or technical evangelism experience

Location

• United States (San Francisco Bay Area Preferred)
• Travel approximately one to two weeks per quarter