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Chainguard secures the software supply chain, and the Customer Platform team owns the critical integration layer that every customer, partner, and internal product line depends on. This team builds and maintains the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable the entire company's product offerings.
As a Staff Software Engineer on Customer Platform, you will own hard technical problems end-to-end with minimal hand-holding, serving as the technical anchor for a team that touches every corner of the company. You'll design, build, and evolve backend systems (primarily Go, REST/gRPC APIs) powering entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services. You'll own features from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration in close partnership with Product Management and cross-functional Chainguard teams (Containers, Libraries, OS packages).
Key responsibilities include: designing and operating backend systems at scale; serving as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other engineering teams by understanding their requirements and building integration paths; extending Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences; providing technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers; and contributing to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines, helping the team 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 top-tier investors including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
The company offers a remote-first culture with team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and monthly stipends for coworking/connectivity; stock options upon hire and promotion with 10-year exercise windows; 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance; unlimited flexible time off; and 18 weeks paid parental leave (12 weeks for non-birthing parents).
REQUIREMENTS:
- Production Go experience
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale; demonstrated shipping and operation in production
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to align on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure
- Comfort operating in ambiguity; ability to come with diagnosis, recommendation, and path forward rather than just problem statements
- 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.
