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 and 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).
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.
Notice that for this role you need to be based in EU/EEA.
About Safespring
At Safespring, we’re giving European organizations an alternative to the hyperscalers. Powered by open source our sustainable and European-based cloud infrastructure puts security, transparency, and digital sovereignty first.
Our recruitment process
At Safespring we’re not just building systems; we’re building relationships. We understand that applying for a new role is a big step, and we aim to make it a smooth, transparent, and engaging experience for you.
Intro chat - this is a great opportunity for both of us to get to know each other and decide if we have a match.
Meet your future manager - deep dive into your engineering experiences.
Tech interviews focused on system design and programming skills with your future team.
Sync with your recruiter - all your interviewers will make a collaborative decision and will either present you with an employment offer and celebrate, or provide you with constructive feedback and encourage to stay connected!
Candidates who get offer of employment with us will need to go through reference and background check
Flexibility in Every Step
We recognize that talent comes in many forms and that the standard interview process isn’t one-size-fits-all. If you have ideas on how you would prefer to showcase your skills, we’re all ears! Our goal is to give you an opportunity to show us how you work best.
How to apply
If this sounds interesting, you can send in your application by clicking the apply button.
You don’t have to tick every box. If the problems described here sound like the ones you want to work on, it’s worth a conversation.
Questions about this role? Send a message to Marietta, our friendly people lead at marietta@safespring.com.
Location and timeline
Please, notice that for this role you will need to be based in European Union.
As we provide services to some of the public research institutions we will conduct background and reference checks as part of the recruitment process for candidates who get offer of employment with us.
info
Starting date: As soon as possible. Rolling interviews.
