# Senior Software Engineer (Athena) at Chainguard

- Company: Chainguard
- What the company does: Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://www.chainguard.dev/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4713200006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-senior-software-engineer-athena/

## About the role

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

## What they're looking for

- Solid backend engineering foundation you've shipped and maintained production systems
- Strong Go engineering skills, GCP and Terraform experience
- You can navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
- Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation
- Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
- Experience with Agentic AI workflows

Tags: R&D Engineering