Sr. Solutions Architect, Startups

Amazon
Santa Monica, CA, USA2026-08-14ONSITE

About the job

We are looking for technical builders who love the idea of working with early stage startups to help them as they grow. In this role, you’ll work directly with a variety of interesting customers and help them make the best (and sometimes the most pragmatic) technical decisions along the way. You’ll have a chance to build enduring relationships with these companies and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with strategic startup customers to accelerate their challenging projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes

• Build technical relationships with customers and operate as their trusted advisor

• Share the voice of the customer to inform the roadmap of AWS features

• Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts)

• Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences)

• Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by interviewing candidates and having a voice in hiring decisions

• Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes

• Design and implement proof-of-concepts (POCs) and reference architectures to showcase the value of AWS services

Qualifications

Minimum

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS