Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
Chainguard19 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs used across multiple products and customer segments.
- Own features end-to-end from technical design and implementation through rollout and iteration.
- Create technical design documents and drive design plans with clarity and confidence.
- Partner with Product Management, designers, frontend engineers, and teams across multiple product lines.
- Contribute to roadmap prioritization, tradeoff decisions, and iterative delivery.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
- Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp up quickly, as the team writes everything in Go.
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving externally and internally consumed public APIs, including versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, and usability.
- Familiarity with microservices, cloud-native architectures, containers, Kubernetes, observability, and production resilience.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with product managers, designers, and engineers.
- Ability to thrive in a remote, self-directed, fast-paced startup environment.
- Prior platform or shared-services experience spanning multiple products or customer experiences is preferred.
- Experience in cloud-native, containers, security, or the broader CNCF ecosystem is preferred.
- Meaningful open source contributions, particularly as a maintainer or regular contributor, are preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement 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% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable continuously or throughout the child’s first year.
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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.