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Staff Software Engineer (Repositories)

Chainguard · United Kingdom - Remote

Posted about 2 months ago

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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 that serve customer-facing infrastructure, including package registries and APIs. Your role will involve designing and operating high-availability backend services in Go, focusing on scalability and reliability while mentoring other engineers and driving technical decisions. This position is infrastructure-heavy and requires collaboration across teams to enhance the repository experience.

Our read on this posting2.6out of 5
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, developer platforms, or other 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, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
  • Strong systems instincts and curiosity

Nice to have

  • Experience with package registries, artifact serving, repository products, or adjacent systems such as Docker registries, GitLab package services, Artifactory, Nexus, or similar platforms
  • Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts such as provenance, SBOMs, and trusted artifact distribution
  • Open source experience, especially in tooling, package ecosystems, or infrastructure used by developers at scale
  • Experience supporting or expanding multi-artifact repository platforms across libraries, containers, OS packages, or similar artifact types

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

  • Remote work environment may require strong self-management skills
  • Role is heavily focused on infrastructure, which may not appeal to all software engineers
  • Expectations for staff-level ownership and technical leadership may be demanding

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Listed by Chainguard on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-28. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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