Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Senior Software Engineer Platform

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. We empower organizations to build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders such as Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The role, in a nutshell:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team. This team owns the customer-facing platform capabilities that power Chainguard’s products, including our notification system, authentication, and the next generation of our public APIs. This is a highly impactful, highly visible role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment. You will design and build backend services and APIs consumed across multiple product lines, partnering closely with Product and the Experience team to deliver features customers rely on daily. We are looking for someone who moves quickly, cares deeply about quality and reliability, and is energized by working across products rather than owning a single narrow service.

What you’ll do:

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them.
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team.
• Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize trade-offs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for “perfect.”

What we’re looking for:

• Strong backend engineering experience: 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
• Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly. We write everything in Go and expect you to get there fast.
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services. You can discuss versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experience.
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build observable and resilient services in production.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines.
• Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment: Genuine interest in a high-paced, high-intensity, “ship it” culture where you are self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and working with people who will challenge you to grow as a developer.

Additionally, we would love it if you have:

• Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiences.
• Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with tools in the broader CNCF space.
• Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects.

Base Salary Range:
$157,000—$184,000 USD

About Us:
We live and breathe our company values:

• Customer Obsessed: We focus on delivering solutions that create value and improve our customers' lives.
• Bias for Intentional Action: We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• Don't Take Ourselves Too Seriously (but we do serious work): We solve important problems that require focus, but we also enjoy the journey.
• Trust and Assume Good Intentions: We are transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well-informed choices.

A Few Of The Benefits We Offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Participate in secondary offerings with 10 years to exercise options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We are building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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