Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
Chainguard19 hours ago
Base Salary
$205k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own features end to end from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Design, build, and evolve backend systems in Go with REST and gRPC APIs.
- Develop entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services.
- Coordinate technical requirements, integration paths, standards, and shared infrastructure across multiple engineering teams.
- Extend the company’s agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and provide technical guidance.
- Help prioritize tradeoffs and deliver product work iteratively.
Requirements
- Production experience with Go.
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale, including shipping and operating them in production.
- Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations by proposing diagnoses, recommendations, and paths forward.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without a management title.
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments, Kubernetes, and cloud provider APIs is a strong plus.
- Experience with entitlements, billing systems, or platform infrastructure is a plus.
- Prior experience building or extending AI-powered product features is a plus.
Benefits
- Remote-first work in the US, UK, or Canada, with team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options.
- 100% company-covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible paid time off.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
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About Chainguard
Chainguard provides secure, hardened container images and production-ready builds of open source software for enterprises and developers, typically sold via subscriptions and support. Its offerings include Chainguard Images and tools for software supply chain security; the company also maintains Wolfi, a container-focused Linux distribution. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Chainguard’s customers include organizations such as OpenAI, Snowflake, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.