Staff Software Engineer, Containers
Chainguard11 days ago
Remote, United States +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$205k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver major Chainguard Containers features and services from concept through production and initial customer use.
- Lead small sub-teams of two to four engineers and make high-impact architectural and roadmap trade-offs.
- Build hardened container images, image build systems, registry capabilities, distribution services, and adoption tooling.
- Use AI coding agents in development, review, and operations while establishing safe team practices.
- Work across teams and with customers, support, and go-to-market stakeholders to solve product problems.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and pair work and raise engineering practices across the team.
- Partner with Product and engineering leadership on roadmap and technical direction.
- Maintain owned systems through observability, on-call, and recurring-issue remediation.
- Write design notes, decision records, and status updates for a distributed remote team.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating software used by paying customers.
- Experience leading at least one multi-engineer project end to end.
- Architectural depth in Go, including designing a Go service from scratch.
- Strong API design, database, caching, and cloud infrastructure experience with GCP or AWS.
- Deep knowledge of containers, container registries, the OCI image format, and Kubernetes.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving technical practices across a team.
- Experience working on a distributed, remote-first team and excellent written English.
- Preferred: software supply chain security experience involving SBOMs, Sigstore, or SLSA.
- Preferred: familiarity with Wolfi, apko, and melange.
- Preferred: Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Preferred: authorship or maintenance of open-source projects.
Benefits
- Remote-first work 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 exercise period.
- 100% company-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.
- Remote availability in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany; relocation is not provided.
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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.