Senior Partner Solutions Architect - East at Chainguard
$195,000from the description
Jul 5, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical partner-facing role sitting within the Customer Success organization, focused on enabling system integrators, resellers, and technology partners to implement container and library security solutions on behalf of their end customers. Day-to-day work spans building enablement programs, creating reference architectures and integration guides, supporting co-delivery engagements, and acting as a bridge between the partner ecosystem and internal product and engineering teams. Best suited to someone with a background in post-sales or channel solutions architecture and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 12,300–30,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
This is a Partner Solutions Architect role sitting in Professional Services/Customer Success — primarily a post-sales technical enablement and partner-facing architecture role. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the best fit; 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is a plausible runner-up given the systems/architecture advisory nature of the work.
The JD states 'up to $195,000 base salary' — this is a ceiling, not a range; both min and max are set to $195,000 to reflect that.
The 8+ years requirement is stated as 'developing high-performance multi-tier applications' — a role-level experience gate, captured in the overall years minimum. The 4+ years post-sales requirement is a secondary, more specific gate; the 8-year figure is the higher overall bar.
Kubernetes and Containers are listed together under the requirements section with firm language ('Strong experience in Kubernetes and Containers') and are emitted as separate skills.
No specific programming languages, cloud platforms, CI/CD tools, or other named technologies are required or even mentioned in the posting beyond Kubernetes/Containers and Chainguard's own products — no additional skills were invented from narrative context.
The role requires the candidate to be located in the Eastern Time Zone; the caller has instructed remote=true with a national candidate pool, so no metro is set.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or IT is explicitly required (not 'or equivalent experience'), so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): multi-tier application development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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