Solutions Architect, Chainguard
Commercial
$135-165k
+ Equity
More information about location
Software supply chain security company
Open for applications
Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$135-165k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience developing high performance multi-tier applications. Strong experience in Kubernetes and Containers
- 2+ years of experience in a pre or post sales customer facing role
- Ability to communicate technical information in highly technical and non-technical ways depending on the audience, which includes various personas, such as engineers to executives
- Continuous learner who has 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, Information Technology
- Strong working experience with software development processes, practices, and software engineering design concepts
- Ability to work effectively with cross functional engineering teams and business partners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- 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
- Lead technical implementations and drive adoption of Chainguard images, helping customers build securely with open source software across their organization
- Partner with the account team (AEs, SEs, CSMs, and Support) to understand customer vision, pain points, and proposed solution in order to drive account level strategies, value realization, and retention/growth
- Ensure Chainguard Images are of highest quality - acting as “customer zero” - testing, documenting, and ensuring a smooth customer onboarding experience
- Partner with our Product and Engineering teams to convey customer requirements and determine the right prioritization for image build
- Maintain appropriate account level architecture and share best practices and lessons learned across the organization
- Be a team player - collaborate, teach, and learn from the Chainguard team
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.
Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.
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Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2024
$140m
SERIES C
Nov 2023
$61m
SERIES B
Total funding: $256m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(Head of Product & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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