Staff Solutions Architect (Data Infrastructure)

• As a Staff Solutions Engineer at Onehouse, you will operate as a technical thought leader and trusted advisor to our most strategic customers
• You’ll go beyond implementation to drive architectural decisions, influence product strategy, and mentor both customers and internal teams
• This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role at the intersection of engineering, product, and go-to-market
• You’ll be a visible face of Onehouse in the modern data community and play a key role in shaping how companies build their next-generation data lakehouses
• You will establish trust in the organization to build and scale the team during our next phase of company growth
• Partner with customers during pre-sales to understand needs, design solutions, and position Onehouse effectively
• Drive technical onboarding for enterprise customers, sometimes directly, sometimes by guiding a team
• Lead incident response and resolution for customer-facing escalations, ensuring transparency and trust throughout the process
• Build demos, solution guides, and technical content for sales and marketing enablement
• Contribute to the open source community and represent Onehouse at industry events
• Develop high-leverage internal tooling, frameworks, and content to scale the solutions engineering function
• Mentor other Solutions Engineers and broader GTM team members
• Analyze recurring pain points and partner with Engineering and Product teams to influence roadmap direction

Benefits

• Equity Compensation; our success is your success with eligible participation in our company equity plan

• Health & Well-being; we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with up to 90% health coverage (50% for spouses/dependents) including comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits

• Financial Future; we’ll invest in your financial well-being by making this role eligible to contribute to our company 401(k) or Roth 401(k) retirement plan

• Location; we are a remote-friendly company (internationally distributed across N. America + India), though some roles will be subject to in-person requirements in alignment with the needs of the business

• Generous Time Off; unlimited PTO (mandatory 1 week/year minimum), uncapped sick days and 11 paid company holidays

• Company Camaraderie; Annual company offsites and Quarterly team onsites @Sunnyvale HQ

• Food & Meal Allowance; weekly lunch stipend, in-office snacks/drinks

• Equipment; we’ll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $500 stipend for your initial desk setup

• Child Bonding!; 8 weeks off for parents (birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, foster, child placement, new guardianship) - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition

• Strong opinions on how the future of open data infrastructure should be built and the skills to influence it

• Experience with modern data lakehouse technologies like Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake

• Extensive technical experience building, operating, and troubleshooting diverse data engineering pipelines with tools like Kafka, Flink, Presto/Trino, DBT, Airflow, Parquet

• Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration and leadership without authority

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills being able to synthesize technical topics for both executive and technical stakeholders

• 8+ years of experience with major cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure

• 8+ years of experience working directly with customers on technical engagements

• 5+ years of deep experience with Apache Spark and knowledge on Spark’s runtime internals, query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting and debugging Spark solutions

• Experience in contributing to an open source project