Solutions Architect
Job Description:
At Cube, we're redefining how organizations deliver, consume, and automate data and analytics across teams, tools, and AI agents. Our mission is to enable Agentic Analytics, where AI agents work alongside humans on a shared semantic foundation
If you're fascinated by building core data and AI infrastructure, the kind that powers analytics at the world's most advanced technology companies , but want the agility and ownership of a startup, Cube is where you'll thrive.
With 19,000+ GitHub stars and 13,000+ community members, Cube is trusted by 400+ companies, including Maersk, Kimberly-Clark, Freshworks, Patagonia, Webflow, Brex, Deel, Tubi, Walmart, and Drata. Our platform empowers AI agents with a universal semantic foundation, enabling autonomous analytics at scale while maintaining consistency, security, and performance across BI tools, spreadsheets, and embedded applications.
What You'll Do
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Design and architect end-to-end semantic layer solutions using Cube, integrating with customers' existing data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Build comprehensive data models in YAML or JavaScript that define metrics, dimensions, and business logic to support data analysis and decision-making.
- Develop proof-of-concepts and technical demonstrations that showcase Cube's capabilities on customer data.
- Guide customers on best practices for data modeling, caching strategies, access control, and performance optimization.
Customer Engagement
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer data architecture, analytics
- requirements, and business objectives.
- Conduct hands-on workshops and training sessions to enable customer teams to use
- Cube effectively.
- Partner with Sales to provide technical expertise during the evaluation process.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer lifecycle, from pre-sales
- through post-implementation.
- Solution Development
- Write complex SQL queries to analyze customer data and validate solution designs.
- Conduct data analysis to identify opportunities for optimization and architectural
- improvements.
- Build integrations between Cube and downstream tools (BI platforms, notebooks,
- custom applications).
- Create technical documentation, reference architectures, and implementation guides.
- Product Collaboration
- Provide customer feedback to Product and Engineering teams to influence the roadmap.
- Contribute to internal tooling and automation to improve solution delivery.
- Develop reusable patterns and frameworks for common implementation scenarios to
- facilitate efficient and consistent development.
What You Bring
Required Skills
- Expert-level SQL proficiency - You can write complex queries, optimize performance,
- and understand query execution plans. This is the foundational skill for success in this
- role.
- Strong data analysis capabilities - You understand how to explore data, identify
- patterns, validate metrics, and communicate insights.
- Programming experience in JavaScript OR Python - You're comfortable reading and
- writing code, working with APIs, and building data transformations.
- 3+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, analytics engineering, or similar
- technical customer-facing roles.
- Deep understanding of modern data stack architecture (data warehouses, transformation
- tools, BI platforms).
- Experience with semantic layers, metrics layers, or BI modeling frameworks (LookML,
- dbt metrics, etc.).
- Strong communication skills - you can translate technical concepts for both technical and
- business audiences.
Highly Valued
- Prior experience with Cube.js or similar semantic layer platforms.
- Background in analytics engineering or data platform roles.
- Experience with data modeling best practices and dimensional modeling.
- Familiarity with REST/GraphQL APIs and how applications consume analytics.
- Knowledge of caching strategies and performance optimization for analytics workloads.
- Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift).
- Understanding of multi-tenancy, access control, and data governance requirements.
Nice to Have
- Experience with embedded analytics or building data-powered applications.
- Knowledge of both JavaScript AND Python ecosystems.
- Contributions to open-source data projects.
- Familiarity with AI/LLM integration with semantic layers.
What Success Looks Like
- Customers successfully deploy Cube into production with well-architected, performant
- solutions.
- High satisfaction scores from customers with technical guidance and support.
- Ability to handle complex, multi-source data modeling scenarios.
- Proactive identification of opportunities to expand Cube usage within customer
- organizations.
- Contributions to the internal knowledge base and solution patterns that benefit the entire
- team.
Why Join Cube
- Work with cutting-edge semantic layer technology at the intersection of data engineering,
- analytics, and AI.
- Collaborate with a passionate team that includes the creators of the open-source Cube
- project.
- Make a direct impact on how thousands of companies organize and access their data.
- Competitive compensation.
- Remote-friendly culture with flexible work arrangements.