or apply directly on Chainguard's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Chainguard's roles stay open a median of 40 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 5% of Chainguard's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Chainguard
- high 35 stale, 1 reposted of 83 open
- Hiring momentum
- 137 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Chainguard's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Chainguard.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team at Chainguard, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the internal infrastructure that enables secure software delivery at scale. Your role will involve enhancing CI/CD pipelines, contributing to the Agentic AI platform, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to automate processes and improve developer experience. You'll also mentor other engineers and help set technical direction for the team.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Chainguard as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments
- Proficiency with Go (Golang), or strong readiness to ramp quickly
- Deep technical expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and the tooling required to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release
- Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams
- Familiarity with Agentic AI / LLM-based automation in production
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Nice to have
- Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable build/workflow systems at high throughput
- Experience scaling change-throughput beyond traditional PR workflows
- Background in developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE)
- Experience operating a large Go monorepo
- Familiarity with the supply chain security space, container ecosystems (OCI, Kubernetes), or open source software communities
What you get
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture
- Our Approach to Equity
- 100% Covered Health Insurance
- ∞ Flexible Time Off
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
Worth weighing
- Base salary range is specified as $205,000 — $231,000 USD
- Role involves significant ownership and responsibility, which may lead to high expectations
- Focus on AI and automation may require adapting to rapidly changing technologies
Summarised from Chainguard's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Chainguard on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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