Chainguard
Senior Partner Solutions Architect - India (Professional Services)
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
India only
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still checked daily, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
India only
Timezone
APAC
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Sales
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $145k–$245k a year, a typical range taken from 450 senior-level sales roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in India. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "India - Remote, Remote - India"
- Job description states: "Located in India"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
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.
The role, in a nutshell:
As a Partner Solutions Architect, you will be part of the Professional Services team within Customer Success, working in direct partnership with Chainguard's partner ecosystem - including system integrators, resellers, and technology partners. In this role, you will enable and empower partners to successfully implement Chainguard solutions and build secure software on behalf of their customers. You will embody our company value, "We are customer obsessed" by ensuring partners are equipped to deliver an exceptional experience to end users at scale.
What you’ll do:
Lead technical enablement programs for partners, equipping their teams to successfully implement and drive adoption of Chainguard Containers and Libraries on behalf of their customers
Partner with the alliances and channel team (Partner Account Managers, AEs, SEs, and CSMs) to understand partner capabilities, pain points, and go-to-market motions in order to drive joint strategies, value realization, and mutual growth
Develop and maintain partner-facing technical content, including integration guides, reference architectures, and best practices, to enable partners to scale Chainguard implementations independently
Support partners in post-sales technical engagements, including co-delivery of implementations, architecture reviews, and escalation support for complex customer environments
Act as the primary technical liaison between the partner ecosystem and Chainguard's Product and Engineering teams, conveying partner-sourced requirements and feedback to influence roadmap prioritization
Build and maintain a deep understanding of partner technical competencies, identifying gaps and designing enablement programs to close them
Maintain partner-level architecture documentation and share best practices and lessons learned across the organization
Be a team player - collaborate, teach, and learn from both the Chainguard team and the broader partner community
What we're looking for:
Minimum 4+ years experience in a post-sales role supporting clients - preferably with experience in a partner-facing technical role, such as partner engineering, alliances, or channel solutions architecture
8+ years of experience developing high-performance multi-tier applications
Strong experience in Kubernetes and Containers
Experience working with or within a partner ecosystem (SIs, ISVs, resellers, or technology alliances) and an understanding of how partners go to market
Ability to communicate technical information in both highly technical and non-technical ways depending on the audience - from partner engineers to executive stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to create scalable technical enablement programs and content for partner audiences
Continuous learner with a strong intellectual drive for excellence and the desire to develop solutions to complex problems
At least a Bachelor's Degree with a focus in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
Strong working experience with software development processes, practices, and software engineering design concepts
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional engineering teams, alliances, and business partners
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Requirements
- ·Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- ·Located in India
- ·Compensation: up to 11,529,674 INR base salary + bonus + equity
Benefits
- ·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.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Chainguard, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (APAC).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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