Senior Software Engineer, Containers
Chainguard28 days ago
Remote, United States +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$157k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship Chainguard Containers features and services from initial design through production and the first week of customer use.
- Own scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and delivery decisions for projects.
- Build and maintain hardened container image build pipelines, registry functionality, distribution systems, and adoption tooling.
- Work with AI coding agents in development, review, and operations while improving safe usage practices.
- Investigate issues across services, customer interactions, support tickets, and go-to-market data.
- Maintain system health through observability, on-call responsibilities, and preventative fixes.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, customers, and distributed teammates through clear written communication.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building and operating software used by paying customers.
- Strong fundamentals in a systems language, preferably Go, along with API design, databases, caching, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
- Working knowledge of containers, container registries, the OCI image format, and Kubernetes.
- Daily experience using agentic coding tools and the ability to describe their impact on work output.
- Strong judgment, systems thinking, ownership, adaptability, and written communication skills.
- Experience working on a distributed, remote-first team and excellent written English.
Benefits
- Remote-first work with team meetup opportunities, 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-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off.
- Paid parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- The role is remote; the United States is preferred, with applications open to Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- Chainguard does not provide visa sponsorship or relocation for this role.
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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.