PubNub

Senior Solutions Architect

PubNub

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead solution strategy and planning across Product, Sales, and Engineering to align solution architecture with customer outcomes and enable scalable, coordinated execution.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor, guiding customers through real-time application development and identifying opportunities to expand their use of PubNub’s platform.
  • Develop tailored solutions and architectures for enterprise use cases, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and rapid time-to-market.
  • Provide hands-on implementation guidance and best practices for PubNub’s SDKs, APIs, and platform components.
  • Define and document scalable architecture patterns that can be reused across strategic accounts, regions, and verticals.
  • Conduct customer workshops, internal knowledge-sharing sessions, and contribute to solution documentation to support technical adoption and long-term success.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in technical architecture, solutions engineering, product management, or developer tooling, with direct SDK/API implementation experience.
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications for Web or Mobile platforms.
  • Demonstrated ability to align customer needs with product and engineering priorities, translating business requirements into scalable technical designs.
  • Experience driving technical pre-sales, enterprise customer engagements, or leading cross-functional delivery of platform-based solutions.
  • Ability to influence product direction through field insight and customer architecture planning.
  • Exceptional communication skills, including comfort working with C-level stakeholders, product teams, and developers alike.
  • Strong coding fluency in at least one modern language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java/Kotlin, Swift, Dart, Ruby), with the ability to quickly apply those skills to other programming languages and platforms.
  • Experience building developer tooling or reusable architecture templates.
  • Familiarity with live collaboration environments (e.g., CodeSandbox, GitHub Codespaces), CI/CD pipelines, and testing/documentation best practices.
  • Working knowledge of distributed systems and platform design concepts (e.g., Kubernetes, service mesh, secure APIs).
  • Working knowledge of AI-enhanced solutions across use cases like personalization, prediction, automation, or real-time insights.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and architectures (e.g., LLM integration, vector search).
  • Experience with real-time applications, messaging platforms, publish-subscribe systems, WebSockets, or event-driven systems.
  • Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR).
  • Background in developer experience (DX), technical writing, or developer community engagement.
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure and networking fundamentals (e.g., AWS, HTTP, TCP/IP).
Benefits
  • Competitive Overall Compensation in the range of USD 175,000 – USD 180,000 per annum
  • Remote-first culture with flexibility across the United States (Central/Eastern time zone preferred)
  • Equity in a profitable, fast-growing infrastructure company
  • Inclusive, growth-focused team where your impact is recognized
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SDK implementationAPI implementationapplication developmentWeb developmentMobile developmentcoding fluencydeveloper toolingarchitecture templatesdistributed systemsreal-time applications
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluencing product directioncustomer engagementcross-functional deliverytechnical adoptionworkshop facilitationknowledge sharingcustomer alignmentstakeholder managementproblem-solving