# Staff Software Engineer (Developer Platform)

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $205k – $231k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, CI/CD, Monorepo, Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Argo Workflows, Dora Metrics
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team building internal infrastructure, monorepo CI/CD, and Agentic AI tooling to accelerate secure software delivery. Requires 8+ years experience with Go, CI/CD, and cloud platform infrastructure.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Take ownership of significant pieces of the Developer Platform, across monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform (DriftlessAF), shared build infrastructure, or the change-throughput substrate, and contribute to technical direction.
- Improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience of the monorepo CI/CD pipeline.
- Contribute to the next generation of change throughput — exploring substrates beyond PR-based workflows for agent-driven changes, trusted agents committing directly to main, and AI-assisted review and auto-merge.
- Help productionize the Agentic AI platform: agent observability, RAG-as-platform, and context-engineering patterns.
- Consolidate fragmented build systems and deliver standardized "paved road" blueprints for new products.
- Partner with engineers to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate manual work.
- Mentor teammates, raise the bar on design and code review, and serve as a technical voice for engineering velocity.

## What we're looking for

- 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
- Proficiency with Go, or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
- Deep technical expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and scaling a large monorepo.
- Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with Agentic AI and LLM-based automation in production, and interest in context engineering (RAG, memory, tool-calling).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of automating repetitive manual work.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a focus on data-driven improvements.

## Nice to have

- Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable systems.
- Experience scaling change-throughput beyond traditional PR workflows.
- Background in developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE).
- Experience operating a large Go monorepo.
- Familiarity with supply chain security, container ecosystems (OCI, Kubernetes), or open source communities.
- Experience publishing internal-platform OKRs and running stakeholder feedback loops.

## Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary Range: $205,000–$231,000 USD
Flexible & Remote-First Culture with team meetups and coworking stipend.
Stock options with 10 years to exercise.
100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance.
∞ Flexible Time Off.
18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing.

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