Solutions Architect

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

As a Solutions Architect, you will design the technical blueprint behind some of the world’s

largest sports, media and entertainment platforms. You will work at the meeting point of client

business goals and engineering execution: shaping architectures, de-risking delivery, and

guiding teams from first conversation to production at scale. If you enjoy solving hard,

ambiguous problems, explaining complex systems simply, and building AI-first products used by

millions, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discovery with clients to understand business goals, existing systems and constraints, and turn them into clear solution architectures.
• Design scalable, secure and cost-efficient cloud architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure) for web, mobile, TV and backend platforms.
• Own architecture decisions across microservices, APIs, data pipelines, event-driven systems and integrations with third-party platforms.
• Build effort estimates, technical proposals and delivery roadmaps, and support pre-sales conversations with credible, well-reasoned solutions.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation, reviewing designs and code to make sure what’s built matches the architecture and quality bar.
• Drive non-functional excellence: performance, high availability, observability, security and compliance at massive scale.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies, especially GenAI/LLM and agentic systems, and recommend where they create real business value.
• Define architecture standards, reusable reference architectures and best practices across Proximity’s engagements.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads, and contribute to knowledge-sharing through Proximity Talks, blogs and thought leadership.
• 12-15 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a solutions architect, technical architect or tech lead role.
• Strong hands-on background in at least one backend stack (Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js or Python) and a solid grasp of frontend and mobile architectures.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
• Proven experience designing distributed, high-traffic systems: microservices, caching, CDNs, queues/streams (Kafka, SQS/PubSub), and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of system design trade-offs: scalability, latency, availability, security and cost.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions, writing architecture documents, and producing estimates and proposals.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present to both C-level stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Ability to break down complex problems into simple, practical solutions that serve business needs.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and across multiple clients, time zones and priorities.

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.

We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better:

Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Proximity.

Read about Proximity’s values and meet some of our Proxonauts here.

Explore our website, blog, and the design wing — Studio Proximity.

Get behind-the-scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @H.Jagda