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
At Chainguard we're focused on securing the software supply chain, and we're building the next generation of products at the intersection of security and AI. You'll join a small, fast-moving team building Chainguard Harness. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in software development
- A track record of building and operating production services where security and data confidentiality were hard requirements, not afterthoughts
- Experience designing systems that hold confidential customer data end to end
- Experience shipping software into air-gapped, disconnected, or highly restricted environments
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS, including IAM, KMS, networking, and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Hands-on experience with virtualization and workload isolation, such as KVM, QEMU, Firecracker or Cloud Hypervisor, gVisor, nested virtualization, or bare-metal hosts
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.
At Chainguard we're focused on securing the software supply chain, and we're building the next generation of products at the intersection of security and AI. You'll join a small, fast-moving team building Chainguard Harness.
Chainguard Harness uses frontier AI models to hunt down exploitable vulnerabilities in a customer's application, then delivers validated findings with recommended fixes, with no model access required. Customers trust us with their source code, so security isn't just a feature of this product. It is the product.
As a Staff engineer you'll own large parts of...
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