Solution Architect (Pre-sales) at Elastic
- Company: Elastic
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Employment type: full-time
- Posted: 2026-07-28
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
As a Solution Architect (Pre-sales) at Elastic, you help customers and partners design, implement, and optimize solutions using the Elastic Stack. Working closely with our Inside Sales team you act as a technical expert, guiding them through architecture decisions, deployment strategies, and best practices.
What You Will Be Doing
- Collaborate with account teams to understand customer requirements.
- Conduct technical discovery sessions and solution workshops.
- Design architectures for search, observability, and security use cases.
- Deliver product demonstrations and proof-of-concepts.
- Assist with deployment planning and configuration.
- Provide guidance on scaling, performance tuning, and security.
- Document solutions and share technical knowledge internally and externally.
What You Bring
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and data indexing/search.
- Experience in a technical customer-facing role.
- Ability to map business needs to technical solutions.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Fluent in English.
Bonus Points
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- Experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) or similar technologies.
- Experience in observability, security analytics, or enterprise search.
- Knowledge of scripting or programming (Python, Java, etc.).
- Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component.
At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.
The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locat
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