Jobs at Chainguard

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard's Repository platform: design, build, and operate high-availability Go backend services and package registries. Drive scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing; make technical decisions on service boundaries and operations; collaborate across teams; and mentor engineers to deliver a unified artifact-serving experience.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Athena, building production-grade distributed systems that validate and deduplicate vulnerability data, orchestrate workflows, ensure observability and operational rigor, and scale the product and team while partnering across engineering and customer-facing teams.

Own and drive architecture for a major backend domain in the clearing house: onboarding, entitlement, or data validation. Build production-ready Go services on GCP with Terraform, design pipelines to ingest/deduplicate unstructured vulnerability reports, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate on architecture and data quality.

Build and maintain core clearing-house backend components in Go on GCP, owning features from design through production. Implement customer onboarding, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines; parse and validate unstructured inputs; ensure observability and operational excellence; participate in on-call and incident response; lead multi-engineer efforts; review code; and contribute infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and GCP-native tooling.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will enhance CI/CD pipelines, improve developer experience, and productionize AI tooling while mentoring teammates and collaborating with engineering leaders.