Senior Partner Solutions Architect - East (Professional Services)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead technical enablement programs for partners on Chainguard Containers and Libraries adoption
• ▹Partner with alliances and channel team (PAMs, AEs, SEs, CSMs) to align on go-to-market strategies
• ▹Develop and maintain partner-facing technical content: integration guides, reference architectures, best practices
• ▹Support partners in post-sales technical engagements including co-delivery, architecture reviews, escalation support
• ▹Act as technical liaison between the partner ecosystem and Chainguard's Product and Engineering teams
• ▹Assess partner technical competencies and design enablement programs to close gaps

Requirements

• ▹4+ years in a post-sales, customer-facing role, ideally partner-facing technical work
• ▹8+ years developing high-performance multi-tier applications
• ▹Strong experience in Kubernetes and Containers
• ▹Experience working with a partner ecosystem (SIs, ISVs, resellers, technology alliances)
• ▹Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
• ▹Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• ▹Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
• ▹Located in the Eastern Time Zone

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible, remote-first culture with team meetups and bi-annual destination summits
• ▹Stock options upon hire and promotion, with a 10-year exercise window
• ▹100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents
• ▹Flexible time off
• ▹18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents

About the company

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, production-ready software builds. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises such as Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, HPE, OpenAI, Snap, and Snowflake.