Startup Solutions Architect, San Francisco Early Stage Startups

Are you passionate about startups Do you get excited about helping founders solve hard technical problems at the earliest and most critical stages of building their company Were looking for a Solutions Architect who wants to be deeply embedded in San Franciscos startup ecosystem. Come join us!

Early-stage startups are unlike any other customer. Founders are moving fast resources are tight and the technical decisions they make today can either unlock their growth or become a bottleneck six months from now. Many of these companies are coming straight out of top accelerators like Y Combinator or are freshly backed by leading VC firms and they need a trusted technical advisor in their corner. This is where you come in.

In this role youll work directly with early-stage founders across a wide range of industries including AI/ML FinTech ClimateTech healthcare consumer B2B SaaS and more. Youll help them make smart pragmatic architectural decisions that set them up to move fast without breaking things later. Youll have the chance to build real lasting relationships with these founders and establish yourself as one of the first trusted technical voices in their journey.

You wont be handing founders a generic playbook. On any given week you might be helping a first-time founder think through their architecture before theyve written a single line of code helping a seed-stage company figure out how to scale after an unexpected viral launch or working through a compliance challenge with a FinTech startup that needs to move quickly but cant afford to cut corners.

Beyond your direct work with founders youll also get time to stay sharp and keep your technical skills fresh. Youll act as a voice for the startups you work with making sure the right products and features are being built for their needs. And youll have plenty of opportunities to share your knowledge more broadly by writing technical content and presenting at startup and developer events across San Franciscos ecosystem.

Key job responsibilities
- Work hands-on with early-stage founders to design and iterate on architectures that are practical for where they are today but built to scale as they grow
- Help startups navigate the fast-moving GenAI landscape from selecting the right foundation models and AI services to building production-ready AI-powered products and services
- Guide founders through the real challenges of building GenAI applications including managing model costs latency accuracy safety and AI best practices
- Support startups in building the right data foundations to power their AI products whether thats vector databases data pipelines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or fine-tuning workflows
- Build and deepen relationships within San Franciscos 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 product and engineering teams to help shape the tools and services being built for them
- Create technical content tailored to early-stage startups such as blog posts reference architectures and sample code that helps founders move faster and spend less time reinventing the wheel
- Share your expertise at startup events demo days and developer meetups across the San Francisco ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community




About the team
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- 2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
- Experience working with end user or developer communities

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 Companys 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.

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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 CA San Francisco - 151000.00 - 204300.00 USD annually