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 Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. This team builds the “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering. It is the internal infrastructure, automation, and AI tooling that lets our engineers ship secure software at scale.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments
- Proficiency with Go (Golang), or strong readiness to ramp quickly
- Deep technical expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and the tooling required to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release
- Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams—evaluating tradeoffs, helping deprecate legacy systems, and building alignment around a target architecture
- Familiarity with Agentic AI / LLM-based automation in production, and an interest in context engineering (RAG, memory, tool-calling) at engineering-platform scale
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work with engineers across the company to identify and automate away repetitive manual tasks
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 Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. This team builds the “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering. It is the internal infrastructure, automation, and AI tooling that lets our engineers ship secure software at scale.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role on a team whose mission is to eliminate developer toil, accelerate teams, and shorten the path from vulnerabilities being discovered to a hardened artifact landing in our customers' hands. The team owns the internal platform end-to-end—monorepo CI/CD, our Agentic AI...
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