Solution Architect
Be the change Europe needs! Join Safespring as a Solution Architect!
Why this role matters
We're building the cloud Europe deserves - open, trustworthy, and competitive. The market and opportunity for EU-made tech has never been better.
Our platform runs heavily on open-source and scales from a single VM in public cloud to multiple racks in a customer's private cloud. Customers are showing up with serious workloads they want to move onto sovereign infrastructure. We need someone who can actually understand what they're trying to do, then turn that into something engineering can build.
That person is you.
Who are you?
You're a translator. You bridge customers and our engineering teams, and translate in both directions. You can sit with a customer's principal engineer, figure out what they're really worried about, not the surface ask, the actual concern underneath, and then walk into our infra team and explain it without losing what matters in either direction.
You've worked on cloud infrastructure or platform products before, ideally somewhere data sovereignty and compliance actually mattered: a sovereign or private cloud vendor, EU public sector, a regulated SaaS, or similar.
You can draft a solution architecture and defend it. This isn't customer-success-with-a-technical-veneer. You have the depth to design and own the design.
You write well. Most of our engineering team will only ever encounter the customer through your writing, so clear documentation is half the job.
You speak Swedish English fluently. You can work fully remotely from anywhere in the EU, or from our Stockholm office. We'll sort you out with the gear you need, plus the stability of a collective bargaining agreement (or equivalent outside Sweden).
What you'll do
- Run discovery sessions and architecture workshops with customers until you understand their workload deeply enough to design for it.
- Write technical briefs engineering can act on: what's needed, why, what's negotiable, what isn't.
- Draft solution architectures and reference designs. Walk customers through them. Iterate until they fit.
- Translate engineering tradeoffs into decisions customers can make. ("A in three weeks or B in three months" - you can explain what that actually means for their roadmap.)
- Pitch in on delivery when something hands-on is needed.
What you'll need
Fluent Swedish and English, both written and spoken. Strong written communication. And comfortable with most of the following:
- Kubernetes, virtualisation, or open infrastructure stacks (OpenStack, Ceph).
- Linux at depth: sysadmin, networking, performance tuning.
- Ansible and Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
- Scripting in Python, Go, or shell.
- Cloud networking: VPCs, load balancers, DNS.
- Cloud security: firewalls, access controls, audit logging.
- Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch.
Above all, drive and curiosity: someone who picks things up, figures them out, and keeps moving, even when the path isn't fully mapped.
Your team
You'll join a small and dense team to start: the CROO, you, and a cloud engineer. You report to the CROO. You work daily with the dev and infra engineering leads. No direct reports.
We're a remote-friendly team, but we value time together. Company offsites and team travel to conferences (KubeCon, OpenInfra, that kind of thing).
Reality check
Working at a small company means living with ambiguity. Customers don't arrive with neat requirements. Priorities shift. You'll regularly choose between "perfect" and "shipped."
If you want narrow responsibilities or a large specialist team around you, this isn't the right fit. If you want to own the gap between customer and engineering end to end, you'll thrive here.
Interested?
We care more about how you solve problems than how polished your CV looks. Click Apply, send us what you have, and we'll take it from there.
Start date: as soon as possible. Rolling interviews.
Salary: 70 000 – 90 0000 EUR annually
Notice that for this role you need to be based in EU/EEA.
