Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened and secure builds of open source software. The Staff Software Engineer will own significant domains within the clearing house, drive architecture and implementation of backend systems, and establish engineering best practices for the team.
Responsibilities
- Long-term ownership of a significant domain within the clearing house: customer onboarding workflows, entitlement management, or data validation pipelines
- Drive the architecture and implementation of backend systems in Go on GCP, ensuring they're production-ready: tested, observable, and maintainable
- Lead the design of data pipelines that ingest unstructured vulnerability reports, deduplicate findings, and produce clean structured outputs
- Establish and model engineering best practices for the team: code review standards, testing, incident response
- Partner closely with the principal engineer and manager on technical planning, architecture alignment and roadmap sequencing
- Collaborate with the libraries team on interface contracts and data quality requirements
Skills
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a clear track record of owning large, complex systems in production
- Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
- Experience building systems that process and validate data from heterogeneous, unstructured sources with an analytical, research-based mindset
- You've taken a business problem from prototype or MVP to a reliable, scalable production service
- Experience designing systems with multiple customer entitlement levels, access controls, and workflow routing
- Comfortable with observability tooling: you don't just ship features, you make sure they're healthy in production
- Background in security, supply chain, or infrastructure domains is a plus but not required
Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
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