Chainguard · 2 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer (Sustaining Automation)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$157K/yr - $184K/yr
5+ years expChainguard is a trusted source for open source, delivering secure and production-ready builds of open source software. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a new team focused on automation and tooling to enhance their fulfillment platform, designing systems and developing AI-powered tooling.
Cloud ComputingCyber SecuritySoftwareEnterprise SoftwareCloud InfrastructureCloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureOpen SourceSecurity
Responsibilities
Architect the automation platform: Design the end-to-end system that orchestrates package creation, test generation, and image building. Own the technical vision and make decisions that will scale
Build AI-powered tooling: Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. Design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates
Write production Go: This is a hands on role! You'll develop CLI tools, services, and integrations alongside your team
Build quality tooling: Develop tooling and automation that improves customer reliability, including test generators, validation frameworks, and quality gates
Shape the roadmap: Collaborate with engineering leadership to identify the highest-impact problems and ensure they get solved. Participate in long-term planning for the organization
Qualification
Required
5-7 years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and building complex systems
Strong Go expertise
Experience with AI/LLM integration: building systems that use language models for code generation, automation, or developer tooling. Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails
Systems architecture skills: ability to design loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs
Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms
Deep Linux and build systems knowledge: experience with package managers (apk, apt, rpm), build tools (Make, Bazel, language-specific toolchains), and containerization
Container ecosystem expertise: Docker, OCI, container registries, Kubernetes
Strong communication skills: ability to write clear technical documents, work autonomously, and collaborate across teams
Preferred
Contributions to open-source projects
Familiarity with software supply chain security (SBOM, provenance, signing)
Experience with melange, apko, or Wolfi
Understanding of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG)
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
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
75%
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Engineering and Development
Sales
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$892MKey Investors
General CatalystIVP,Kleiner PerkinsIVP,Lightspeed Venture Partners,Redpoint
2025-10-23Debt Financing· $280M
2025-04-23Series D· $356M
2024-07-25Series C· $140M
Leadership Team
Dan Lorenc
Founder/CEO
Recent News
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