Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software used by engineers and AI agents. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Platform team to design and build customer-facing backend services and public APIs, owning features end-to-end and partnering with Product and Experience teams across multiple product lines.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, and ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them
- Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team
- Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence
- Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for “perfect.”
Skills
- Strong backend engineering experience 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
- Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly — we write everything in Go and expect you to get there fast
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services. You can talk about topics like versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experience
- Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient in production
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
- Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment: A genuine interest in a high-paced, high-intensity, “ship it” culture where you're self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and working with people who will challenge you to grow as a developer
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- Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiences
- Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with tools in the broader CNCF space
- Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects
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.
- Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
- 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.
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