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Salary: USD 157,000 - 184,000 / annual
Chainguard secures the open source supply chain, the infrastructure underneath the majority of production software today. The Athena team is building the system that makes enterprise-scale supply chain security possible. You will process vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, validate and deduplicate findings, and route clean signals to remediation—essentially building the clearing house between enterprise customers and the remediation engine.
In this role, you will:
- Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP, including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
- Take ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability
- Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale
- Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs
- Design, implement, and operate reliable agentic workflows that automate complex, multi-step tasks across production systems
- Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems
- Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon
- Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering bar
- Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling
Chainguard's customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global leaders such as Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. The company is venture-backed by leading investors including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
Requirements:
- Solid backend engineering foundation with shipped and maintained production systems
- Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience required
- Ability to navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
- Experience working in teams that prioritize operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation
- Ability to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
- Experience with agentic AI workflows
- Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plus
- Security or infrastructure domain knowledge is a plus
- Experience in security vulnerability domain, coordinated disclosure process, or CVE publication is nice to have
About Chainguard
AI / Data / Infrastructure; Legal / Compliance / Risk — software supply-chain security and trusted container images.
