Senior Solutions Architect – East, Professional Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical implementation and promote the adoption of Chainguard Images, assisting customers in securely building with open source software throughout their organizations.

• Collaborate with account teams, including Account Executives, Solutions Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and Support, to comprehend customer visions, challenges, and proposed solutions.

• Strategize at the account level to ensure value realization, retention, and growth.

• Test, document, and verify that Chainguard Images are of high quality, ensuring a seamless onboarding experience for customers.

• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to communicate customer requirements and prioritize image builds.

• Maintain the architecture at the account level.

• Share best practices and insights learned across the organization.

• Collaborate, teach, and learn alongside the Chainguard team.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 4+ years of experience in a post-sales role supporting clients.

• 8+ years of experience in developing high-performance multi-tier applications.

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and container technologies.

• Ability to convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, ranging from engineers to executives.

• A continuous learner with a strong drive for excellence and a desire to devise solutions for complex problems.

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology.

• Significant experience with software development processes and practices.

• Understanding of software engineering design principles.

• Capability to work collaboratively with cross-functional engineering teams and business partners.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time.

• Must be located in the Eastern Time Zone.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with opportunities for team meetups.

• Bi-annual destination summits.

• Monthly stipends for coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses.

• Stock options available upon hire and promotion.

• Opportunity to participate in secondary offerings.

• 10 years to exercise stock options.

• 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and their dependents.

• Unlimited flexible time off.

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

• Option to utilize parental leave all at once or spread throughout the child's first year.

• Bonus opportunities.

• Equal opportunity employer.