Solutions Architect
Plane Software, Inc.3 months ago
Germany (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Own technical architecture for enterprise and regulated-industry deployments from discovery through signed statements of work.
- Design self-hosted and air-gapped Plane deployments that satisfy customer security reviews.
- Run technical discovery with customer infrastructure and compliance teams.
- Define migration paths from multiple legacy tools, including data-loss considerations.
- Partner with sales on live deals and engineering on specific, scoped product gaps.
- Complete and explain security questionnaires and produce technical documentation for customer engineers.
Requirements
- Experience designing and defending technical architectures to skeptical buyers, including an example where customer security or infrastructure feedback changed the design.
- Understanding of self-hosted and on-premises deployment, networking, SSO, identity federation, and customer-operated software.
- Ability to translate security questionnaires and compliance requirements into concrete deployment decisions.
- Comfort serving as the technical voice on sales calls and communicating negative or incomplete answers.
- Ability to write technical documentation that customer engineers can follow.
Benefits
- Experience in pre-sales or post-sales solutions architecture, sales engineering, or technical account management for regulated industries is preferred.
- Experience contributing to Plane, running it self-hosted, or maintaining a relied-upon open project is preferred.
- Experience supporting banking, defense, healthcare, or air-gapped deployments is preferred.
- Interest in enterprise permissioning and auditing for AI agents is preferred.
- The role supports deployments in Plane Cloud, customer clouds, and offline or air-gapped environments, with work conducted in the open.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Plane Software, Inc.
Plane Software builds an open-source work management platform that brings projects, knowledge, and service requests into one system for engineering and operations teams. Organizations can run it as a managed cloud service or deploy it on their own infrastructure, including isolated and sovereign clouds—an option valued in regulated industries. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company develops in public on GitHub and serves teams worldwide.