Solutions Architect: Scale Go, SQL & Cloud Ops

Energy Innovation Corp; Thornton (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Pictures is seeking a Solutions Architect in Thornton, CO who thrives on database tuning, performance optimization, and thoughtful tech choices. You will own data models, query plans, and the stack that powers high-throughput workloads for Sony Pictures’ applications.

You’ll evaluate buy vs. build decisions, lead performance improvements, and help secure authentication flows with Next.js, while mentoring teams to uphold engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Ability to optimize queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Experience deciding buy vs build for tech stacks.
• Experience ensuring uptime and performance in production.
• Review code and uphold engineering standards.
• Ability to reduce cloud spend through efficient architecture.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Sony Pictures workloads.
• Decide when to buy Go versus build it for Sony Pictures's Thornton, CO stack.
• Defend Sony Pictures uptime through the 2 a.m. Thornton pages nobody volunteers for.
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Trim Sony Pictures's cloud bill by right-sizing the Cultural Awareness infrastructure in Thornton, CO.
• Keep the Docker build pipeline green so Thornton deploys never wait on a red light.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Next.js.

Skills

Multitasking

Ownership

Critical thinking

Communication

Growth mindset

Tools

MySQL

Go

Docker

Next.js

Job description

Sony Pictures is seeking a Solutions Architect in Thornton, CO who thrives on database tuning, performance optimization, and thoughtful tech choices. You will own data models, query plans, and the stack that powers high-throughput workloads for Sony Pictures’ applications.

You’ll evaluate buy vs. build decisions, lead performance improvements, and help secure authentication flows with Next.js, while mentoring teams to uphold engineering standards.