Solutions Architect, strongDM
$150-180k
+ Bonus + Equity
Manages auditable database access
Job no longer available
Manages auditable database access
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-180k
+ Bonus + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify infrastructure access by helping companies manage and audit access to their databases, servers, clusters, and web applications.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in technical consulting, solutions architecture, systems engineering, particularly in post-sales or implementation roles
- Strong communication skills, capable of working effectively with cross-functional teams and customer stakeholders
- Ability to understand how technical concepts help achieve business goals
- Demonstrated track record of persuading technical audiences to take action based on requirements and value provided by solutions
- Experience with major cloud provider technologies and services (AWS, Azure, GCP)Strong understanding of network architecture, security protocols, and system integration
- Experience with systems automation, e.g. IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Scripting (python, powershell, bash, particular language not important)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues
What the job involves
- As a Solutions Architect at StrongDM, you will play a critical role in supporting our customers after the sale is complete, ensuring that our solutions are deployed efficiently and effectively
- Your work will involve detailed planning, consultation, and hands-on implementation to help our clients build secure, scalable, and resilient data access architectures using StrongDM's products
- Architecture Design: Develop and refine architecture plans that align with client needs for security, scalability, and fault tolerance. Ensure solutions are designed to meet future growth and flexible enough to adapt to evolving technology landscapes
- Best Practices Development: Advocate for and implement best practices in security and architecture design. Customize solutions to fit industry-specific requirements and standards
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the lead technical contact during the post-sales phase, providing expertise in StrongDM’s technologies and the broader access management landscape
- Customer Implementation: Work directly with customers to integrate StrongDM solutions into their existing environments. Guide the installation, configuration, and tuning of StrongDM deployments
- Problem Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues during the deployment process. Provide detailed technical analysis and recommendations to resolve integration challenges
- Collaboration and Training: Work closely with internal teams, including sales, engineering, and product management, to provide feedback on customer experiences and help drive product improvements
- Train customers on new tools and technologies, ensuring they are empowered to use StrongDM effectively
- Documentation: Work with our Education team to create and augment detailed documentation and deployment guides to assist clients with future maintenance and scalability
Our take
With cyber threats becoming increasingly common over the last decade, securing access permissions within data infrastructures is essential to enterprise survival. However, managing this task can be expensive and complicated, leading some small businesses to combine various budget open-source data services which results in insecure and convoluted infrastructures.
strongDM provides a tool for managing permissions and access within data infrastructures, achieved by ensuring information is siloed to prevent one person from accessing all parts of the infrastructure. In addition to providing these modular security features, the company also makes it easier for technical staff to access the information that they need based on one-click identity checks.
Whilst plenty of data infrastructure tools already exist with the purpose of securing permission, strongDM have made the smart move of integrating their siloed approach to auditable permissions whilst making access easier for those with permission. The company claims that its service guarantees frictionless and auditable data infrastructure by also automating access logging and data capturing across entire IT stacks. Its 2024 funding round will be used to expand its operations into the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. It's also setting up an engineering center of excellence in Poland.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$34m
SERIES C
Sep 2021
$54m
SERIES B
Total funding: $110.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- 3 months parental leave
- Equity
- HSA, FSA, short/long-term disability
- 3 weeks PTO + standard holidays
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We are transparent
- We tell it like it is
- We are always ready to help
- We are better together
Company HQ
Downtown, Burlingame, CA
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Founders
Justin McCarthy
(CTO)They worked extensively as a Software Engineer before joining CafePress.com as Engineering Manager. They were VP of Engineering at Rafter and CTO at Preact.
Schuyler Brown
(CCO)They received an MBA from Columbia before working as Assistant to the President of Miramax. They were VP of Marketing at Nomi, and a Columnist at Inc. Magazine.
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