About Port:
Port is the Agentic SDLC Platform. The way engineering teams build software is constantly evolving, and every new wave - such as AI agents operating across the SDLC- makes engineering more powerful, but also more complex and chaotic.
Port turns that chaos into control: one platform to build, govern, and operate the software development lifecycle, enabling every team to move as fast as technology allows.
Following our $100M Series C funding round, we are entering an exciting stage of significant growth and global expansion. As a product-led company, we believe the recipe for success is a world-class product that speaks for itself.
As a Solutions Architect (SA) at Port, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers after purchase, guiding the successful design, implementation, and adoption of Port’s Agentic Engineering Platform You will partner closely with platform, DevEx, and engineering leaders to ensure Port is deployed in a secure, scalable, and high-impact way across their organization.
This role blends technical depth, architectural thinking, and customer consulting. You will translate customer goals into robust solution designs, embed best practices, and help customers future-proof their developer platform while accelerating time-to-value. Working alongside the rest of Customer Success, Product, and Engineering, you will play a key role in turning Port into a core part of each customer’s engineering ecosystem.
About Your Day-to- Day:
- Lead technical discovery sessions and architecture workshops with platform, DevEx, and engineering teams
- Design scalable, secure, and resilient IDP architectures tailored to customer environments
- Create solution designs, reference architectures, and integration patterns for successful implementations
- Review and validate customer architectures against best practices and long-term scalability
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering managers, platform leads, and senior technical stakeholders
- Translate developer experience and platform goals into actionable Port configurations and adoption strategies
- Deliver technical enablement sessions, architecture reviews, and executive readouts to drive value
- Represent the technical voice of the customer and provide structured feedback to influence the product roadmap
- Capture and document best practices in playbooks and reusable solution assets
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to improve customer outcomes at scale
- Mentor customer teams on platform design and IDP best practices to support long-term adoption
- 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles (post-sales or pre/post-sales).
- Strong foundation in software and systems architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Helm) and Kubernetes-based environments.
- Proven experience guiding customers through complex technical implementations and platform adoption.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both deep technical audiences and executive stakeholders.
- Note: Employees are required to work from the office 3 days a week and 2 days from home. Office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles (post-sales or pre/post-sales).
- Strong foundation in software and systems architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Helm) and Kubernetes-based environments.
- Proven experience guiding customers through complex technical implementations and platform adoption.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to engage technical audiences and executive stakeholders.
- Work from office three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and two days remote.
Port.io Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. postings highlight baseline medical, dental, and vision coverage, indicating conventional health benefits are available. Public signals portray these as standard inclusions for at least some roles and locations.
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Retirement Support — U.S. role listings explicitly include a 401(k), signaling foundational retirement support. Specifics such as match and vesting are not publicly detailed, so generosity cannot be verified.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Sales and go‑to‑market roles are associated with healthy on‑target earnings ranges, indicating performance‑based pay is meaningfully used. Available ranges suggest incentives can be competitive for certain functions.
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What We Do
The developer experience, developer productivity and driving software quality are on top of every engineering leader’s mind. At Port, we help engineering organizations excel through the use of our open internal developer portal, owned by platform engineering teams and built for developers. Port consolidates everything developers need to know and execute to deliver software autonomously and to comply with organizational standards. Managers use Port to understand engineering metrics and improve them. We’re growing rapidly, fueled by the industry’s leading product, and by the constant innovation of our customers, big and small, that use our product to change how developers work.
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