Staff Software Engineer
Staff engineer on the Containers team owning complex technical components of Chainguard Images, driving long-term technical direction, and mentoring engineers. Requires 10+ years experience, deep expertise in containers/Kubernetes/Go, and IaC.
About the job
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional teams to design innovative services and features that enhance the core product, making it more compelling and valuable.
- Develop robust tools and services to continue to improve our image build system as it scales.
- Own high-impact, deeply technical components of the Chainguard stack, serving as the subject matter expert in those areas.
- Participate in long-term planning and roadmap discussions, helping identify the key problems the team needs to solve and ensuring they get solved.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization.
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, compilers, Makefiles, and toolchains.
- Expertise with containers, container registries, Docker, Kubernetes and its greater ecosystem.
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code, and proficiency in creating modules and organizing resources logically for reuse.
- Experience writing services or tools in Go.
- Strong communication skills, proficiency in English, ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and seek help proactively when necessary.
Nice to haves
- Author and/or contributor to open-source projects.
Skills
Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Containers, Container Registries, Infrastructure As Code, Makefiles, Compilers, Toolchains
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