Software Engineer for Customer Platform

Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, production-ready builds of open source software used by engineers and AI agents, helping organizations build faster, stay compliant, and reduce risk.

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for different products and customer segments
• Own features end to end, from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in partnership with Product Management and the Experience team
• Create technical design documents and drive design plans
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap, help prioritize tradeoffs, and ship iteratively

• 5+ Years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
• Proficiency in Go or readiness to ramp up quickly
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs used internally and externally across multiple products or services, including versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, and usability
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, containers, and Kubernetes
• Ability to build observable and resilient production services
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced remote startup environment, work independently, handle ambiguity, and adapt to an intense shipping culture
• Будет плюсом: experience building platform or shared services across multiple products or customer experiences, experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem or broader CNCF space, meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor

• Remote-first culture with team meetups, biannual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs
• Stock options upon hire and promotion; access to secondary offerings; 10 years to exercise options
• 100% Coverage of 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 at once or throughout the child’s first year