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Salary: USD 205,000 - 231,000 / annual
Chainguard secures the software supply chain by delivering hardened, secure, production-ready builds of open source software. The Customer Platform team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable every customer, partner, and internal product line to connect to Chainguard's core offering. This is the first touchpoint for customers and the integration layer that every internal engineering team depends on.
As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will own hard problems end-to-end without hand-holding and serve as the technical anchor for a team that touches every corner of the company. Your responsibilities include:
- Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, working closely with Product Management and partner Chainguard teams
- Design, build, and evolve backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) powering entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services
- Serve as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other Chainguard engineering teams (Containers, Libraries, OS packages), understanding their requirements and building integration paths
- Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers, helping the team break down ambiguity and build toward clear outcomes
- Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively
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:
- Production Go experience
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale; shipped and operated them in production
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to align on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: you come with a diagnosis, a recommendation, and a path forward, not just a problem statement
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without needing a management title
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs) is a strong plus
- Experience with entitlements, billing systems, or platform infrastructure is a plus but not required
- Prior exposure to building or extending AI-powered product features is a plus
About Chainguard
AI / Data / Infrastructure; Legal / Compliance / Risk — software supply-chain security and trusted container images.
