Responsibilities

Operate and develop the Elastic Build service, a Kubernetes + GitHub + Cloud Run pipeline that converts package specifications into downloadable artifacts
Improve reliability, performance, resource usage, and multi-architecture support
Maintain and improve Melange package build tool, focusing on usability, testing, patch management, and observability
Design and build automation for rebuild and review workflows while keeping a human in the approval chain
Support shared library transitions using build-time and runtime dependency analysis
Build monitoring, dashboards, and alerting; create automated responses to common failure modes
Define and deliver a roadmap for build and update services within the OS team
Document systems thoroughly and reduce single points of knowledge
Contribute to distro-level package updates and keep Chainguard OS up-to-date and secure

Requirements

4+ years of software engineering experience with backend or distributed systems
Strong programming skills in Go; comfortable writing production services, ideally including a Kubernetes operator or custom controller
Hands-on experience operating production services at scale, responding to real incidents, restoring service, and improving systems
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and cloud-native service design
Familiarity with GCP services (e.g., BigQuery, IAM, Cloud Logging)
Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems
Able to work independently and communicate clearly in a remote-first environment

Experience contributing to or maintaining build, packaging, or tooling projects
Observability and monitoring experience (Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Logging, etc.)
Experience with Linux build or packaging systems
Understanding of dependency management and rebuild automation
Experience with ARM64 build environments
Familiarity with BigQuery or Looker Studio for data analysis