TiDB, powered by PingCAP · 1 day ago
Solution Architect
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$125K/yr - $175K/yr
5+ years expTiDB, powered by PingCAP, is a global player in the database market, offering a cloud-native, distributed SQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. The Solution Architect will work with various industries to align TiDB's solutions with customer needs, providing insights and strategies while guiding customers in building reliable systems using the platform.
Cloud Data ServicesDatabaseOpen SourceSoftware
Responsibilities
Support business teams in North America, EMEA, APAC, and Japan, take responsibility in the new economy industry, ensure the achievement of relevant business metrics at the solution level, and enhance the Proof of Concept(POC) success rate of account teams
Responsible for market insight into the global new economy vertical industries (games, e-commerce, financial technology, SaaS, etc.), in-depth understanding of the industry's business scenarios, being able to grasp the industry's market and data technology development trends, develop and implement scenario-based industry solutions, and find the entry of products in various industries, safeguard products, solutions and the implementation of cooperation ecology
Advise customers on architectures, patterns, and strategies for making the best use of TiDB, through efficient tooling and interactive user journeys
As a technical expert, deeply understand and develop trends in data technology, study the latest data technology stack and data products, and output high-quality technical content and technical solutions
Establish industry influence, organize internal and external industry technology sharing, and disseminate distributed database technology, industry data architecture, and best solutions practices
Display a strong understanding of solutions innovation. The ideal candidate will have past experience working with customers, especially big accounts and leading architecture teams
Qualification
Required
Professional experience could be 5+ years, Master in at least one database or big data technology stack and product, have in-depth research and relevant content output in this direction; have a broad view of data technology and be familiar with mainstream data products, including RDMS, distributed system, cloud native data technology etc
Possess diverse industry business and technology expertise, with a comprehensive understanding of industry scenarios, SaaS know-how in both the business model and data architecture
Proficient in scenario abstraction and aligning with data architecture, with a proven track record in industry influence with internal and external presenting, evangeling and enabling the field teams with proactive exploration of data architecture needs, and guiding solution design
Demonstrated expertise in selling databases and deploying applications with leading cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc
Outstanding communication and program presentation skills, enabling proactive exploration of customer data architecture needs, guiding solution design, and facilitating the implementation of business initiatives
Possess a strong sense of curiosity and a continuous learning mindset in the realms of database, cloud computing, big data, and other emerging technologies
Benefits
Health insurance
Flexible vacation time
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Company
TiDB, powered by PingCAP
Founded in 2015, TiDB was born from the vision of three talented software engineers who set out to build a database system that would be more scalable and reliable than MySQL, while retaining its rich ecosystem of tools and frameworks.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (5)
2024 (4)
2023 (2)
2022 (8)
2021 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$641.6MKey Investors
China Growth CapitalYunqi Partners
2021-05-01Series D· $300M
2020-11-17Series D· $270M
2018-09-11Series C· $50M
Leadership Team
Dylan Cui
Co-founder
Edward Huang
Co-Founder | CTO
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