# Staff Software Engineer (Repository) 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: 2026-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4697551006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-staff-software-engineer-repository/

## About the role

If you’re excited by the idea of building the trusted front door to secure open source software, this role is for you. Chainguard’s Repository team owns the customer-facing infrastructure that serves libraries today and is laying the foundation for a unified repository experience across more artifact types over time, including containers and APKs.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems, with clear evidence of staff-level ownership and technical leadership
- Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp quickly in Go
- Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems
- Experience deploying and managing services in production, with strong judgment around reliability, observability, performance, and operational tradeoffs
- Comfort working across application and infrastructure layers, including service development, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Strong systems instincts and curiosity: you proactively identify problems, chase them down, and improve the platform before issues become bottlenecks for customers or internal teams

Tags: R&D Engineering