Solutions Architect

The role

You will own the technical architecture for enterprise and regulated-industry deployments. You will design self-hosted and air-gapped deployments and work with sales and engineering to meet customer requirements.

What you will do

• Own the technical architecture for enterprise and regulated-industry deployments.
• Design self-hosted and air-gapped Plane deployments.
• Run technical discovery with customers.
• Define the migration path when a customer moves off existing tools.
• Work daily with sales on live deals.
• Work with engineering when customer requirements expose product gaps.
• Answer security questionnaires for regulated buyers.

Required qualifications

• You have designed and defended a technical architecture to a skeptical buyer.
• You understand self-hosted and on-premises deployment including networking, SSO and identity federation.
• You can translate a security questionnaire or compliance requirement into a deployment decision.
• You are comfortable being the technical voice on a sales call.
• You write technical documentation for customer engineers.

Nice to have

• Worked pre-sales or post-sales in a solutions architecture, sales engineering, or technical account management role selling to regulated industries.
• Contributed to Plane, run it self-hosted, or maintained another open project.
• Shipped or supported deployments into banking, defense, healthcare, or air-gapped environments.
• Have opinions about how AI agents should be permissioned and audited in an enterprise environment.

About the company

Plane is a work management platform built for a future where humans and AI agents work together. It is used by organizations in aerospace, defense, and financial services.