# Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard Harness 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: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4727461006?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-staff-software-engineer-chainguard-harness/

## 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

Tags: R&D Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-staff-software-engineer-chainguard-harness/