Chainguard · 8 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer (Platform)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$205K/yr - $231K/yr
5+ years expChainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Developer Platform team, focusing on building infrastructure and tooling to help developers ship secure software at scale.
Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareOpen SourceSecurity
Responsibilities
Design, build, and evolve internal platform services by understanding how Chainguard engineers use shared infrastructure, ensuring our "Factory" capabilities work seamlessly across the organization
Implement agent observability by capturing and analyzing structured traces, making AI-driven workflows (like automated CVE remediation) debuggable and reliable in production
Optimize our monorepo CI/CD pipeline to maintain high-performance DORA metrics, focusing on improving build stability and reducing flake rates
Master context engineering by validating patterns for agent skills and memory, enabling agents to make consistent decisions across complex engineering workflows
Contribute to a productivity-driven roadmap with clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs to remove "shadow production" risks and deliver standardized "paved road" blueprints
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building production services and infrastructure in a modern cloud environment
Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly
Deep technical expertise in scaling container-based orchestration and workflow engines to automate the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring the underlying 'Factory' infrastructure is as robust as the products it builds
Familiarity with Agentic AI or automation workflows and a passion to master context engineering (RAG, memory, and tool-calling) to scale AI agents in a production engineering environment
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with engineers across the company to identify and automate away repetitive manual tasks
A genuine interest in a high-paced, high-intensity, 'ship it' culture where you're self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and focused on data-driven improvements to product delivery
Benefits
Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
Company
Chainguard
Chainguard is a cloud-native development platform that provides low-to-zero CVE container images for building and running applications.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$892MKey Investors
General CatalystSpark CapitalSequoia Capital
2025-10-23Debt Financing· $280M
2025-04-23Series D· $356M
2024-07-25Series C· $140M
Leadership Team
Dan Lorenc
Founder/CEO
Kim Lewandowski
Co-Founder
Recent News
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