Solutions Architect - Commercial
Lead technical implementations and drive adoption of Chainguard images to help customers build securely with open source software.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Solutions Architect at Chainguard, the individual will lead technical implementations and drive the adoption of secure software solutions for commercial clients. Key skills include expertise in Kubernetes and containers, along with a strong background in customer-facing roles that require effective communication across technical and non-technical audiences. This position is ideal for someone with at least four years of experience in software development and a passion for problem-solving, making it suitable for mid to senior-level professionals. Chainguard emphasizes a customer-centric approach, fostering collaboration with product and engineering teams to enhance client satisf
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Chainguard's career page.
- Chainguard has 84 other open roles including Copy of Executive Business Partner, Revenue (GVP Americas & GVP International), Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform , Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer - New York.
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Quick facts
- Is the Solutions Architect - Commercial role remote?
- Yes — Chainguard lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Solutions Architect - Commercial 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 Solutions Architect - Commercial 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 Commercial 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:
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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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