Senior AI-First Solutions Architect (Cloud & Scale)

Proximity Works; San Francisco, Palo Alto (CA, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Proximity Talks

Continuous learning

High-impact projects

Job summary

Proximity is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to design and drive technical architectures for large-scale sports, media, and entertainment platforms. You will translate business goals into scalable cloud solutions, lead cross-functional teams, and guide engineers from discovery to production.

With 12–15 years in software, you will own decisions across microservices, data pipelines, and integrations, while mentoring talent and shaping best practices.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with 3+ years as solutions/tech lead.
• Strong backend experience: Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js or Python.
• Deep cloud platforms experience, AWS preferred.
• Proven ability to design distributed, high-traffic systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to translate business goals into architectures.
• Design scalable, secure, cost-efficient cloud architectures for web/mobile/TV.
• Own architecture decisions across microservices, APIs, data pipelines.
• Build proposals, roadmaps and support pre-sales with credible solutions.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices across engagements.
• Ensure performance, availability, observability and security at scale.
• Evaluate GenAI/LLM opportunities and prototype where valuable.
• Create reusable reference architectures and standards.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

AWS/GCP/Azure

Microservices

Terraform

Docker/Kubernetes

Kafka/SQS/PubSub

Backend: Java/Kotlin/Go/Node.js/Python

System design & trade-offs

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Proximity is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to design and drive technical architectures for large-scale sports, media, and entertainment platforms. You will translate business goals into scalable cloud solutions, lead cross-functional teams, and guide engineers from discovery to production.

With 12–15 years in software, you will own decisions across microservices, data pipelines, and integrations, while mentoring talent and shaping best practices.