# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $157k – $184k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Llm Integration, Prompt Engineering, Systems Architecture, Cli Development, Linux, Package Managers, Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-06-13

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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)

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