or apply directly on Chainguard's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 55 days Chainguard's roles stay open a median of 51 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 5% of Chainguard's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Chainguard
- high 53 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
- 2026-09-28
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 Repository team at Chainguard, you will lead the architecture and implementation of core systems such as package registries and APIs that serve artifacts to customers. Your role will focus on building high-availability backend services in Go, improving system reliability and performance, and mentoring other engineers. This position is infrastructure-heavy and requires collaboration across teams to enhance the repository experience and support a variety of artifact types.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- 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 of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems
- Strong Go experience or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp quickly in Go
- Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, or high-scale serving systems
- Experience deploying and managing services in production with strong judgment around reliability, observability, performance, and operational tradeoffs
- Comfort working across application and infrastructure layers, including service development and cloud infrastructure
- Strong systems instincts and curiosity to proactively identify and resolve problems
Nice to have
- Experience with package registries, artifact serving, repository products, or similar systems
- Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts such as provenance, SBOMs, and trusted artifact distribution
- Open source experience, especially in tooling or infrastructure used by developers at scale
- Experience supporting or expanding multi-artifact repository platforms across various artifact types
What you get
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture with team meetup opportunities
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, with the ability to participate in secondary offerings
- 100% Covered Health Insurance for you and your dependents
- ∞ Flexible Time Off to recharge and reset
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Go and infrastructure tools
- The role is described as high-impact but may involve ambiguity in early stages
- Remote work may require strong self-management skills
Summarised from Chainguard's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Chainguard on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-28. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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