Solutions Architect

As a PL solutions Architect, you will play a critical role in understanding the customer's needs and help design and architect Filecoin in existing enterprise workloads and new Web3 applications. You will be at the forefront of onboarding new customer datasets and be responsible to drive and design new use cases onto the Filecoin network. As a technical evangelist you will be driving awareness through creation of blogs and educational content with the goal to repeat these new use cases across the wide ecosystem of users and storage providers. You will collaborate with the enterprise ISV ecosystem and the Filecoin engineering team to successfully integrate traditional enterprise applications with the Filecoin network. 

Solutions Architect at Protocol Labs

This is a high-growth role with high visibility that will have a sizable, immediate impact on Protocol Labs and the entire ecosystem.  You will get the opportunity to work with a wide array of ecosystem partners and customers, from well-established giants to innovative startups.

Protocol Labs is a distributed organization of over 120 collaborators (worldwide), split across 15 countries with no regular offices and with thousands of developers and entrepreneurs building in our ecosystem. Our team is responsible for exponentially growing the Filecoin/IPFS ecosystem by identifying and closing strategic partnerships and bringing in high-impact collaborations. This is a combination of strategic vision, business development, and hands-on execution to deliver results. As an early member on the Ecosystem Collaborations team, you will provide our organization with the creativity, versatility, and execution it needs to reach its goals.

As a Solutions Architect at Protocol Labs, you will...

• Identify, prioritize, and design high-impact solutions driving new datasets onto the Filecoin network.
• Drive and manage end-to-end technical relationships with top enterprise customers to successfully onboard new datasets. 
• Build technical relationships with key tooling and ISV partners to exponentially grow the Web3 communities and proactively integrate new solutions.
• Be an advocate for clients inside of PL and provide input to the technical roadmap.
• Evangelize, inspire, and train teams to successfully build and repeat new use cases 
• Guide the ecosystem of customers and partners in how to sell and implement new solutions through reference architectures, how-to’s, whitepapers, webinars, event presence.

You may be a fit for this role if you...

• Have 5+ years of customer facing experience in solutions architecture, technical sales or professional services roles.
• Experience with deploying and integrating applications with scalable and distributed scale-out storage technologies, e.g. scale-out filesystems, on-premises object storage systems, Web3.0 PaaS and SaaS.
• Are willing to pull-up your sleeves and contribute through sample code and presentations to adapt to the customer requirements.
• Working knowledge of Linux, Web 2.0 development platforms, solutions and related technologies. Understanding of DNS, TCP, firewalls, proxy servers, DMZ, VPN, VPC.
• You get a kick out of driving new technologies with emerging customers.
• Domain expert in storage, ideally in archive and backup workflows
• Have strong problem solving, interpersonal, and analytical skills
• Have prior experience in running your own startup or high growth teams.
• Strong public speaking and writing skills are required
• Good intuition with Web3 ecosystems and how the industry is evolving.
• Self-starter, and the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to deliver results.

Bonus points if...

• Domain experience in a specific market vertical: Lifesciences, HPC archives, government, or other.
• Experience with open source communities / projects.
• Experience with distributed/remote orgs.

What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?

Protocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.