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
Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software. Every artifact Chainguard distributes is evaluated by our scanner before it reaches a customer. It determines whether a package, container, or AI agent skill is safe to use and sits between our customers and compromised software.
What they're looking for
- Multiple years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems, with a clear track record of staff-level ownership and technical leadership
- Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp quickly in Go
- Experience owning highly technical platforms or backend infrastructure that supports multiple products or internal customers
- Experience with high-throughput, event-driven pipelines where throughput, latency, and correctness all matter at once
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains
- Demonstrated success making engineering design and prioritization decisions in technically complex and ambiguous environments
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.
Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software. Every artifact Chainguard distributes is evaluated by our scanner before it reaches a customer. It determines whether a package, container, or AI agent skill is safe to use and sits between our customers and compromised software.
What began as a high-leverage internal system has become a core platform powering Chainguard Libraries, Containers, Agent Skills, and future products. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the engineering of that platform.
You'll own its architecture, scale, and...
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