Senior Solution Architect at Starburst
San Francisco, CA
$230,000–$260,000
Aug 6, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A pre-sales Solutions Architect role at a data analytics software company, focused on guiding enterprise customers through technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and production adoption of the company's query engine platform. The position sits at the intersection of field sales and deep technical consulting — owning demos, reference architectures, SQL performance tuning, and migrations from legacy data warehouse systems, with roughly 25% travel.
Senior level · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 60 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer systems analysts). range 35–90
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,417 (middle half $106,757–$174,454).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
This is a pre-sales / Solutions Architect role — it sits between a pure technical sales engineer (no clean SOC match) and a systems analyst. 15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts is the closest fit given the emphasis on architecture consultation, system design, and customer technical guidance; 15-1299 is noted as an alternative since pre-sales SE work doesn't map cleanly to any single SOC.
All listed technical areas (SQL, Linux CLI, Data Warehouse, Cloud, Hadoop/distributed systems) appear under a single 'Some of the things we look for' section framed as 'Expertise or Experience in one or more of the following' — meaning the posting treats them as a collective gate rather than individually required. They are marked required as a group per the section placement, but candidates strong in a subset may still qualify.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
The role is listed as based in San Francisco, CA, but no explicit remote/hybrid policy is stated beyond the 25% travel requirement; remote=false is set conservatively.
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