Senior Software Engineer

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.
• 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 tradeoffs and ship iteratively.

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.
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services (versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, usability).
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient 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: self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, high-paced “ship it” culture.

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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $157,000–$184,000 USD
• Flexible & Remote-First Culture with team meetups, bi-annual summits, and monthly coworking/phone/internet stipend.
• Stock options upon hire and promotion; 10 years to exercise options; participation in secondary offerings.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance (health, vision, dental) for you and dependents.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off.
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.