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ChainguardChainguardUnited States

Senior Software Engineer

Senior engineer leading automation platform design and AI-powered tooling for secure container image delivery. Requires 5-7 years experience, strong Go skills, and expertise in Linux, containers, and LLM integration.

157k – 184k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

  • Architect the automation platform: Design the end-to-end system that orchestrates package creation, test generation, and image building. Own the technical vision and make decisions that will scale.
  • Build AI-powered tooling: Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. Design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates.
  • Write production Go: Develop CLI tools, services, and integrations alongside your team.
  • Build quality tooling: Develop tooling and automation that improves customer reliability, including test generators, validation frameworks, and quality gates.
  • Shape the roadmap: Collaborate with engineering leadership to identify the highest-impact problems and ensure they get solved. Participate in long-term planning for the organization.

What we're looking for

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and building complex systems
  • Strong Go expertise
  • Experience with AI/LLM integration: building systems that use language models for code generation, automation, or developer tooling. Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails
  • Systems architecture skills: ability to design loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs
  • Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms
  • Deep Linux and build systems knowledge: experience with package managers (apk, apt, rpm), build tools (Make, Bazel, language-specific toolchains), and containerization
  • Container ecosystem expertise: Docker, OCI, container registries, Kubernetes
  • Strong communication skills: ability to write clear technical documents, work autonomously, and collaborate across teams

Nice to haves

  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Familiarity with software supply chain security (SBOM, provenance, signing)
  • Experience with melange, apko, or Wolfi
  • Understanding of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG)

Skills

GoLlm IntegrationPrompt EngineeringSystems ArchitectureCli DevelopmentLinuxPackage ManagersBazelDockerKubernetes
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