# Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform 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: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4699416006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-senior-software-engineer-developer-platform/

## 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

Tags: R&D Engineering