# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $205k – $231k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, Monorepo, Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, Tool Calling, Dora, Space, Oci, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Staff engineer owning internal developer-platform infrastructure, monorepo CI/CD, shared build systems, and Agentic AI tooling. The role requires 8+ years of production platform experience, strong Go proficiency, expertise in CI/CD and container orchestration, and the ability to drive technical direction across teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own significant portions of the Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform, and shared build infrastructure.
- Write architectural design documents and coordinate across teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant, scalable, and maintainable software.
- Improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience of monorepo CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop systems beyond traditional pull-request workflows for agent-driven changes, including automated validation, AI-assisted review, and auto-merge for low-risk changes.
- Productionize Agentic AI platform capabilities such as observability, structured traces, cost tracking, debuggability, shared memory, and context-engineering patterns.
- Consolidate fragmented build systems and create standardized paved-road blueprints for product onboarding and production delivery.
- Partner with engineers across the company to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate repetitive work.
- Mentor engineers, improve design and code review standards, and contribute to engineering velocity and operational excellence.

## Requirements
- 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
- Proficiency with Go or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
- Deep expertise in CI/CD systems, container orchestration, and tooling for scaling monorepos across build, test, and release.
- Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams, evaluating tradeoffs, deprecating legacy systems, and aligning teams around target architectures.
- Familiarity with production Agentic AI or LLM-based automation and context engineering, including retrieval-augmented generation, memory, and tool calling.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and use data to improve product delivery.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable high-throughput build and workflow systems.
- Experience scaling change throughput beyond traditional pull-request workflows.
- Experience with developer-experience metrics such as DORA and SPACE.
- Experience operating a large Go monorepo and its supporting tooling.
- Familiarity with supply-chain security, OCI, Kubernetes, or open-source software communities.
- Experience publishing internal-platform milestones and running stakeholder feedback loops.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $205,000–$231,000 USD.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, with participation in secondary offerings and a 10-year exercise period.
- Company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Remote-first work culture, team meetups, destination summits, and coworking, phone, and internet stipends.

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