Senior Solutions Architect - Central (Professional Services)
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Solutions Architect at Chainguard, the individual will lead technical implementations and drive customer adoption of secure open source software solutions. Key skills include extensive experience with Kubernetes, multi-tier applications, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a strong background in post-sales support and software engineering, who thrive in collaborative environments. Chainguard emphasizes a customer-centric approach, making this role pivotal in shaping client experiences.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Chainguard's career page.
- Chainguard has 75 other open roles including Senior Software Engineer (Sustaining Automation), Senior Product Security Engineer, Senior Product Security Engineer.
- 1098 active Kubernetes roles on Joblaze right now.
- 18 active containers roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$113,600).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Solutions Architect - Central (Professional Services) role remote?
- Yes — Chainguard lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Chainguard lists $165,000–$195,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Solutions Architect - Central (Professional Services) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: containers, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Chainguard targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Solutions Architect - Central (Professional Services) role at Chainguard.
From the original posting
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
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The role, in a nutshell: As a Solutions Architect, you will be part of the Professional Services team within Customer Success, working in direct partnership with our customers. In this role, you will lead implementations and empower customers to use Chainguard in order to build secure software. You will embody our company value, “We are customer obsessed” by ensuring the customers are our top priority in the implementation and onboarding lifecycle. As the closest technical team member in contact with our customers, you not only are the “face of Chainguard” to our end users, you will have an opportunity to directly collaborate and innovate with the product and engineering team to ensure we are supporting and continuing to build solutions that our customers love. What you’ll do:
What we're looking for:
Compensation: up to $195,000 base salary + bonus + equity If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. Chainguard is on a mission to build the best team. To achieve our goal, we are focused on hiring Chainguardians with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. |
About Us
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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