Chainguard is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team. You will own customer-facing platform capabilities that power Chainguard's products, including our notification system, authentication, and public APIs. This is a highly impactful, highly visible role designing and building backend services and APIs consumed across multiple product lines in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
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.
- Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team.
- Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
- Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services.
- Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes.
- 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: self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and working in a high-paced, high-intensity, 'ship it' culture.
Technical Stack
- Go (Golang)
- Kubernetes
- Containers
Team & Environment
You will be a key member of our Platform team, working in a product-driven environment.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $157,000 - $184,000 USD + equity.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options.
- 100% Covered Health Insurance for you and your dependents (health, vision, dental).
- ∞ Flexible Time Off.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
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.
