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Chainguard is a venture-backed software supply-chain security company that delivers hardened, secure, production-ready builds of open source software. The company serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global leaders including OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
The Repositories team owns customer-facing infrastructure that serves Libraries and is building a unified repository experience across multiple artifact types including containers and APKs. This is an infrastructure-heavy backend role at the intersection of software engineering and production infrastructure.
You will develop Go services, contribute to customer-facing systems, improve reliability and performance, and learn how production infrastructure supports a broader artifact platform. This is an early, high-impact area for the company where you'll work closely with experienced engineers, take ownership of well-defined projects, and grow your ability to make effective technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and improve customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems that make Chainguard software easy to consume securely and reliably
- Implement well-scoped projects and features from technical design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration, with support from more experienced engineers
- Develop and operate backend services in Go that serve Libraries and establish the foundation for containers, images, APKs, and other artifact types
- Contribute to work involving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing for production systems
- Participate in design discussions and help make thoughtful decisions about service boundaries, APIs, data flows, and operational patterns
- Work with engineers and product partners across Chainguard to solve problems and deliver a cohesive repository experience
- Review code, ask questions, share what you learn, and contribute to a supportive engineering team
- Help investigate and resolve production issues, building your operational judgment and understanding of how customer-facing systems run in practice
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience building software, with some experience working on backend or infrastructure systems
- Experience with Go, or strong programming experience in another language and the ability to learn Go quickly
- Experience contributing to software projects from implementation through testing and release
- Interest in building customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other backend systems
- Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, debugging, and version control
- Exposure to deploying or operating services in production, or a strong interest in developing those skills
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is helpful but not required
- A systems-oriented mindset and curiosity: you like understanding how things work, investigating problems, and improving your solutions over time
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach, including the ability to ask for help, incorporate feedback, and work effectively in a remote environment
Nice to have:
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems
- Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to become productive in Go quickly
- Experience owning backend or infrastructure projects from design through production operation
- Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems
- Strong judgment around reliability, observability, performance, security, and operational tradeoffs
- Experience deploying and managing services in production, including familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- Strong systems instincts and curiosity: you proactively identify problems, investigate root causes, and improve the platform before issues become bottlenecks
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly in a remote environment where engineers are expected to work across teams and turn ambiguity into progress
About Chainguard
AI / Data / Infrastructure; Legal / Compliance / Risk — software supply-chain security and trusted container images.
