Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
Chainguard19 hours ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own features end to end, including design, implementation, rollout, and iteration, in partnership with Product Management and other Chainguard teams.
- Design, build, and evolve Go backend systems and REST/gRPC APIs supporting entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding.
- Serve as the technical interface between Customer Platform and engineering teams working on containers, libraries, and OS packages.
- Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers and help resolve ambiguity.
- Contribute to product-driven roadmaps, prioritization, tradeoff decisions, and iterative delivery.
Requirements
- Production experience with Go.
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale, including shipping and operating them in production.
- Experience aligning multiple engineering teams on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations by developing diagnoses, recommendations, and forward paths.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without a management title.
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments, Kubernetes, and cloud provider APIs is preferred.
- Experience with entitlements, billing systems, or platform infrastructure is preferred but not required.
- Prior experience building or extending AI-powered product features is preferred.
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 a 10-year option exercise period.
- 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.
Tech Stack
Categories
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.