# Staff Software Engineer, Customer 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: 2026-10-13
- Apply by: 2026-11-27
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4720009006?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-staff-software-engineer-customer-platform/

## About the role

Chainguard secures the software supply chain and Customer Platform is how every customer, partner, and internal product line actually connects to it. This team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable everything else. It's the first thing a customer touches and the integration layer every internal team depends on. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Production Go experience
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale, you've shipped and operated them in production
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to align on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure
- Comfort operating in ambiguity you come with a diagnosis, a recommendation, and a path forward, not just a problem statement
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without needing a management title to do it
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs) is a strong plus

Tags: R&D Engineering

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