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.
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. This team builds the “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of experience building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments
- Proficiency with Go (Golang), or strong readiness to ramp quickly
- Experience with CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and the tooling required to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release
- A strong AI-forward mindset, ability to connect your past technical experience with modern, AI-driven development practices (e.g., LLM-based automation, context engineering)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work with engineers across the company to identify and automate away repetitive manual tasks
- Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable build/workflow systems
More about this 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.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. This team builds the “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering.
This is a high-impact role on a team whose mission is to eliminate developer toil and shorten the path from a CVE being issued to a hardened artifact landing in our customers' hands. The team owns the internal platform end-to-end. This includes our CI/CD, our Agentic AI platform (DriftlessAF), shared build infrastructure, and the foundation for how changes get validated, reviewed, and landed. AI agents are reshaping how change...
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