Principal Solutions Architect - Connectivity (EMEA)

5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Architect, Customer Success Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Senior Support Engineer.

Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, service mesh (e.g., Istio, Cilium), and API gateways and proxies (e.g., Envoy, Gloo Gateway).

1+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies — LLMs, agentic frameworks, model-serving platforms, or AI infrastructure.

Proven track record managing technical relationships with large, strategic enterprise customers in a post-sales context.

Excellent troubleshooting instincts and the ability to navigate complex, multi-team production environments.

Comfort with scripting or programming (e.g., Go, Python, Bash) for diagnostics, automation, and reference implementations.

As a Principal Solutions Architect at Solo.io, you’ll be responsible for delivering technical projects that ensure our customers get the maximum value out of our offerings.

While product onboarding and adoption is a core focus, responsibilities include help with migrations, feature adoption and any technical problem whose scope is larger than what can reasonably be worked through a support ticket.

Our customers are some of the most knowledgeable platform engineers and software developers in the world, and your job is to work with them on how to best architect solutions using Solo products.

Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a small portfolio of strategic accounts based in EMEA, developing deep familiarity with their use cases, architecture, teams, and business goals.

Lead technical issue resolution end-to-end, partnering with Support and Engineering on escalations and driving root-cause analysis.

Provide hands-on troubleshooting within your accounts where it accelerates resolution and deepens customer trust.

Solo enables companies to Connect, Secure and Observe modern applications – APIs, Microservices and Data – with the industry’s leading API and Service Mesh Management Platform (“Gloo”). Solo innovations allow companies to stay on the leading edge of both technology and business possibilities.

Solo is a VC-backed company, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. In 2021, Solo was valued at $1B. Solo’s customers are some of the largest in the world, spanning all geographies and industries. Solo’s team has deep expertise in Cloud Computing, Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, APIs, Security, Microservice Applications, Application Modernization, GraphQL, and eBPF.