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Chainguard is a venture-backed software supply-chain security company delivering hardened, secure, production-ready builds of open source software. The company serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global leaders including OpenAI, Snap, Snowflake, and HPE.
You will join the Platform team as a Senior Software Engineer, owning customer-facing backend services and APIs that power Chainguard's products across multiple product lines. This is a highly visible, high-impact role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs, understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities
- Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, partnering closely with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team
- Create technical design documents and drive design plans with clarity and confidence
- Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively
The role emphasizes moving quickly, caring deeply about quality and reliability, and being energized by working across products rather than owning a single narrow service. You'll work in a remote, startup environment with a "ship it" culture where you're self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and challenged to grow.
Company values include customer obsession, intentional action, not taking themselves too seriously while doing serious work, and trusting each other with transparent decision-making.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of strong backend engineering experience building production services and APIs in modern cloud environments
- Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly (company writes everything in Go)
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services; familiarity with versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experience
- Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and building services that are observable and resilient in production
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
- Proven ability to thrive in remote, startup environment with self-direction and comfort with ambiguity
NICE-TO-HAVE:
- Prior experience building platform or shared services spanning multiple products or customer experiences
- Experience in cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with CNCF tools
- Meaningful open source contributions, especially as maintainer or regular contributor
About Chainguard
AI / Data / Infrastructure; Legal / Compliance / Risk — software supply-chain security and trusted container images.
