Senior Solutions Architect, ReadySet
$160-220k
+Equity
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SQL caching engine
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SQL caching engine
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-220k
+Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the future data layer of the web.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people who are excited about exploring and productionizing the frontier of distributed systems and DB research to join our fully-remote team. You’d be a great fit at Readyset if you're excited about bringing to market data infrastructure that makes applications faster, simpler, and easier to deploy
- This role is ideal for individuals with a strong engineering background, exceptional communication skills, and expertise in distributed systems, databases, and caching solutions
- 5-7 years of experience in a customer facing technical role (sales engineering, solutions engineering, etc.) for database or caching technologies, with a minimum of 3 within a pre-sales environment
- Strong SQL expertise and hands-on experience with database optimization, caching, or scalability solutions
- Proven ability to work with enterprise customers in complex technical environments, solving database performance challenges
- Outstanding presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences
- A scrappy, independent approach, excelling in end-to-end project ownership and problem-solving
- Published articles in the DBA community about database solutions and deployments is highly desirable
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to bridge Readyset customer needs with product capabilities, accelerate product adoption, and drive the success of enterprise implementations
- As a Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving customer adoption by showcasing the technical and business value of Readyset
- Collaborate with the GTM team during pre-sales to identify customer needs, provide technical expertise, and address challenges
- Act as a product expert, offering technical support and driving technology evaluations for prospects
- Actively drive the technology evaluation stage of the sales process with our prospects of various technical levels
- Develop technical content (e.g., documentation, articles, white papers) to establish thought leadership and educate customers and prospects
- Partner with product and engineering teams to advance Readyset based on customer feedback
- Create and maintain reusable assets like guides, demo environments, and pre-sales materials, to support scalable processes
- Build trusted relationships with customers to drive adoption, expansion, and long-term success
- Represent Readyset at industry events, webinars, and conferences
- Maintain deep expertise in database technologies and industry trends to proactively engage clients, identify new opportunities, and provide post-sales support to ensure customer satisfaction and product adoption
Our take
Once applications begin to gain popularity, databases need to be able to handle an increased volume of requests, larger data sets, and more complicated queries. Databases that can’t keep up can lead to substantial business losses precisely when there’s most to be gained: Super Bowl weekend, for example, or Black Friday. ReadySet is looking to help companies dodge this issue.
The company is developing a plug-and-play data caching layer that pre-computes and caches query results in relational databases, meaning that database reads can remain fast. In fact, ReadySet claims that the layer supports millions of reads per second “with sub-millisecond latencies on a single node”.
This is a hugely impressive feat from the company, founded by a team of data systems researchers from MIT, for whom ReadySet began as Noria - the open source streaming data-flow system developed in the lab. Plus, whilst it’s still in development, surveys suggest that there’s substantial enterprise appetite for this kind of product. This is partly thanks to unfit legacy systems, and partly in anticipation of the swelling user and data volumes anticipated for the years ahead - both are good news for ReadySet.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$29m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with minimum vacation recommendations
- 90 days of paid parental leave
- Team offsites - a few times a year, the whole company meets to facilitate in person collaboration and team bonding
- We actively encourage participation at conferences and events
- Virtual game hours & an internal tech talk series for our remote team to learn together and have fun together
Company values
- Diversity and Inclusion - we have put immense effort into fostering an inclusive, diverse work environment from the time of the company’s founding. We expect everyone to bring empathy and respect to all of their interactions with coworkers and customers
- Healthy Collaboration - Though every team member at ReadySet is individually exceptional, many of the problems we are solving have not been solved before. This means engineering at ReadySet is a team sport
- Safety to Fail - as a growth stage company tackling huge engineering challenges, sometimes we fail. When this happens, we don’t place blame or keep score and are willing to acknowledge when we could have done better
- Continuous Learning and Growth - we want to be a company where all employees are excited to continue learning and growing in their area of expertise, no matter which role or team they are a part of
Company HQ
Beverly Hills, CA
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Leadership
Alana Marzoev
(CEO)Previously worked on ML engineering at BioBots, then ML and Computer Systems Research first at UC Berkeley College of Engineering's RISELab, then at Cornell University College of Engineering. Subsequently worked in cloud infrastructure at Microsoft, and recently completed an MIT PhD in distributed systems and databases.
Jon Gjengset
(Co-Founder)Completed a PhD on distributed systems at MIT and worked a spell there as a TA, before moving into a Senior Software Development Engineer role at AWS. Has also spent nearly two decades as a Supervisor and Web Developer at Oksnøen Leir camp.
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