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Cyber & IT Operations Analytics Engineer
KDA Consulting Inc
Herndon, VA
We are seeking a hands-on Cyber & IT Operations Data / Splunk Analytics Engineer to support the Sponsor’s IT systems data modernization ecosystem. In this role, you will address critical…
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Data Engineer 100652
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Boston, MA
We are seeking a Mid-Level Data Engineer with SQL Server Administration (DBA) experience to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ELT processes that move critical data…
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Security Automation Engineer II, BU Info Security
Boston University
Boston, MA
…across Boston University to define, implement, and evaluate security risks and controls, and to make sure what we build matches our enterprise architecture standards and Information…
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Principal Cloud Platform Engineer
Salem Five Bank
Salem, MA
Serve as senior hands-on engineer and escalation point for complex cloud, infrastructure, and production issues.
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Lead Software Engineer
JustPark
Remote, United States
We are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to own the Oobeo and EnforcePlus platforms and lead the engineering team that builds and maintains it. Oobeo powers our digital permits, valet…
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Cyber Cloud Solution Engineer Lead/Staff
AEP Service Corporation
Remote, United States
As an Advanced Cloud Security Engineer, you will serve as a technical anchor for our enterprise cloud defense strategy. Your primary mission will be engineering, implementing, and…
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Network Development Engineer I, Datacentre Fabrics - Product Engineering
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Arlington, VA · Seattle, WA
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all…
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Critical Environment Electrical Engineer
Microsoft
AZ · Phoenix, AZ · Goodyear, AZ · Phoenix · Goodyear
- $102,100 to $202,200 USD / year
…services. As a CO+I Data Center Critical Environment Electrical Engineer, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's…
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Senior Physical Design Verification Engineer
Microsoft
OR · CA · TX · NC · Hillsboro, OR · Mountain View, CA · Austin, TX · Raleigh, NC · Hillsboro · Mountain View · Austin · Raleigh
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Cloud Network Engineer II
Microsoft
United States
- $102,100 to $219,200 USD / year
As a Cloud Network Engineer II on the HPC & AI Infrastructure team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI supercomputing and large-scale networking, shaping how advanced AI models are…
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Senior Silicon Design Verification Engineer
Microsoft
CA · TX · OR · WA · NC · Mountain View, CA · Austin, TX · Hillsboro, OR · Redmond, WA · Raleigh, NC · Mountain View · Austin · Hillsboro · Redmond · Raleigh
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Critical Environment Technician Manager
Microsoft
GA · East Point, GA · East Point
- $75,400 to $185,300 USD / year
…Manager, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the…
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Software Engineer
Microsoft
WA · Redmond, WA · Redmond
- $85,400 to $183,700 USD / year
Are you a software engineer who loves code, moves fast, and enjoys solving problems at scale? Are you excited about AI and want to build the platform that makes AI reliable, resilient, and…
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Logic Design Engineer
Microsoft
United States
- $102,100 to $219,200 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Principal Product Engineer
Microsoft
CA · OR · NC · TX · Mountain View, CA · Hillsboro, OR · Raleigh, NC · Austin, TX · Mountain View · Hillsboro · Raleigh · Austin
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Software CAD DevOps Engineer
Microsoft
OR · CA · NC · Hillsboro, OR · Mountain View, CA · Raleigh, NC · Hillsboro · Mountain View · Raleigh
- $102,100 to $219,200 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Cloud Principal Hardware Engineer
Microsoft
CA · WA · Aliso Viejo, CA · Mountain View, CA · Redmond, WA · Aliso Viejo · Mountain View · Redmond
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Senior Design Verification Engineer
Microsoft
NC · TX · WA · Raleigh, NC · Austin, TX · Redmond, WA · Raleigh · Austin · Redmond
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Senior Performance Modeling Engineer
Microsoft
CA · WA · Mountain View, CA · Redmond, WA · Mountain View · Redmond
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
Do you want to help shape the future of AI infrastructure and influence the hardware-software co-design decisions that power Microsoft's next generation AI platforms?
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Senior Mechanical Engineer, AI Systems
Microsoft
CA · Mountain View, CA · Mountain View
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI for XR
Google
San Jose, CA · San Francisco, CA
…computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing…
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Principal CAD Software Engineer
Microsoft
CA · NC · OR · Mountain View, CA · Raleigh, NC · Hillsboro, OR
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent…
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Full Stack Software Engineer
UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN
- $72,800 to $130,000 USD / year
Must be able to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance
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Industrial Facility Security Officer (FSO)
Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc.
San Luis Obispo, CA
ESAero, an AV Inc. Company, is seeking an Industrial Facility Security Officer (FSO) to work in a dynamic high-tempo environment delivering Mission First results! This position will manage,…
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Senior DevOps Engineer
Abbott
Pleasanton, CA
Provision, configure, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure , ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.

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Startup Solutions Architect, Early Stage Startups

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 25, 2026

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Come work with the founders building what's next.

Some of the most important companies of the next decade are being built right now, in San Francisco, by two or three people and an idea. We're looking for someone who wants a front-row seat to all of them, and the technical chops to help make them real.

You'll work across AI/ML, FinTech, ClimateTech, healthcare, consumer, B2B SaaS, and whatever gets invented next, with many of these companies coming straight out of Y Combinator and other top accelerators or freshly backed by leading VC firms. They need a trusted technical voice in their corner from day one, and you get to be it. Picture a small team with a technical founder and maybe a couple of engineers, moving fast with Claude Code, Codex, and whatever tool shipped last week, trying to make every product, architecture, and business decision at once. There's no VP of Engineering to align with, no platform team to hand things off to, and no multi-quarter roadmap, so for the startups you work with you become the closest thing they have to a fractional CTO or chief architect. That's what makes this an adventure rather than a support role: you and the founders are figuring it out together, and a single good decision can save six months of runway while a bad one can quietly sink the whole thing.

The work is bigger than architecture, and it changes week to week. One week you're helping a team understand the architecture their coding agent quietly built for them and untangling the decisions they didn't realize they'd made, the next you're figuring out how to scale after an unexpected viral launch, and the week after that you're working a compliance problem with a FinTech startup that has to move fast but can't cut corners, or talking a founder through a hard pivot and helping them separate what they've already built from where the data says they should actually go. You'll prototype alongside them, experiment with frontier AI, and carry what you learn from hundreds of founders back into AWS so the products we build reflect what the leading edge actually needs.

We hire for a specific kind of person, and it starts with founder empathy over enterprise process. You get that every dollar spent on infra is a dollar not spent on talent or growth, that their timeline is measured in months of runway, and that they're emotionally all-in on this idea, so you earn trust by genuinely caring whether the team survives rather than by showing off enterprise-grade architecture. That empathy shows up as survival-first thinking: before you recommend anything, you understand their runway, their burn, their signals of product-market fit, and their next milestone, whether that's demo day, a fundraise, or a first paying customer.

To advise this well you have to see the full stack of the business, letting technical choices, product, business model, runway, and the founder's own risk tolerance all inform your recommendations, because you can't advise on architecture without understanding burn rate. You stay a builder at heart, since you don't stop being an engineer when you join this team; you prototype, write code, and get your hands dirty with new models, Bedrock, agents, and RAG because that's how you stay credible with people who build for a living. And you act as a scout for the future, spotting when a single startup's tool choice becomes a cohort-wide trend twelve to twenty-four months before the rest of the market, then carrying that signal back to AWS product and service teams. You don't have to already be a Solutions Architect to do this. Great people on this team have come from founding-engineer roles, senior software engineering, AI engineering, and traditional SA backgrounds, and if you're an excellent builder who loves customers, we can teach you the AWS you need.

Key job responsibilities

Act as a trusted technical advisor to a portfolio of early-stage founders, designing architectures that are right-sized for where they are today and built to grow if and when they scale
Get hands-on: prototype, build reference patterns, and demo working solutions alongside founders rather than handing them a generic playbook
Help founders understand and improve the architectures their coding agents generated, making sense of the decisions and tradeoffs baked into what they've already shipped
Help startups navigate the fast-moving GenAI landscape, from selecting the right foundation models and AI services to shipping production-ready AI-powered products
Guide founders through the real challenges of building GenAI applications, including model cost, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
Help founders make pragmatic build-and-scale decisions, including when to keep architectures disposable and adaptable while the direction is still being validated
Stay technically sharp by experimenting with new models, agent frameworks, and emerging tools, so you can advise credibly across the entire stack
Build and deepen relationships across San Francisco's startup ecosystem, including top accelerators like Y Combinator, incubators, and leading VC firms
Be a voice for your founders, connecting their feedback and needs directly to AWS product and engineering teams to shape the tools being built for them
Scout emerging technology trends across the startups you work with and translate those signals back into AWS product roadmaps
Share your expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups across the San Francisco ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community

Basic Qualifications

4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes
Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences
Hands-on experience building with GenAI, such as foundation models, agents, RAG, or fine-tuning, in a prototype or production setting

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a startup founder, founding engineer, or early engineer at a pre-Series A company
Fluency with modern agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex) and the ability to reason about the architectures they generate
Experience shipping GenAI applications to production, including managing model cost, latency, accuracy, and safety
Depth in at least one technical or industry domain (e.g. AI/ML, data & analytics, security, FinTech, healthcare) paired with broad full-stack fluency
Experience building data foundations for AI products, such as vector databases, data pipelines, or retrieval systems

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, CA, San Francisco - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually

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