Solutions Architect

Who We Are

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving a diverse set of engineering challenges.

Salt is expanding and seeking an outstanding Solution Architect to join our team!

This key position includes a broad set of responsibilities:

• You will own researching, designing, and building (hands-on) the tools and infrastructure to make our service scale and become seamless to deploy, operate, and integrate with our Fortune 500 customers’ existing infrastructures
• You will be responsible for driving and managing the technical implementation of Salt’s products, playing a key role in bringing new customers and supporting existing ones
• You will troubleshoot the toughest customer issues, and support and train Salt’s sales engineers, customer success engineers, and product managers
• You will provide the best possible service to our existing and future customers, working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that requires high availability for our customers

Who you are:

• Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Fast learner - able to work independently and adapt quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to collaborate across the company - with R&D, product, sales engineers, senior management, and customers
• 7+ years of industry experience including:
•  A wide variety of modern technologies (as many of the following as possible: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift)
• Strong scripting experience - bash and python
• Extensive infrastructure and IT experience (Linux distributions, Linux networking, proxies, firewalls, cloud networking, virtualization, VMWare stack, Redhat stack)
• Code pipelining, Git, IaC (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Linux networking, including nftables, IPTables, namespaces, kernel routing, etc.
• Networking troubleshooting experience (wireshark, tcpdump, netcat, etc.)
• Cloud and Kubernetes networking experience is a bonus, as well as some familiarity with eBPF
• Full OSI stack awareness and experience dealing with all layers
• Passion and willingness to be highly available to our customers, sales engineers, and customer success.
• Fluent English- verbal and written communication skills

Preferred experience:

• Strength in Microsoft Azure or deep knowledge of API Gateways
• Proven track record of solution architecture or professional services - demonstrated ability to lead deployments and troubleshooting sessions while maintaining rapport and providing great service
• Prior startup experience in growth phases - with a quickly growing customer base
• Experience working with enterprise customers’ IT and devops departments to architect and deploy on-prem solutions (preferably security-oriented)