Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, helping organizations build faster and stay compliant. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and implementation of their Repository team's core systems, focusing on secure and reliable artifact serving at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for key parts of Chainguard Repository, including customer-facing registries, APIs, and serving systems that make Chainguard artifacts easy to consume securely and reliably
- Design, build, and operate high-availability backend services in Go that serve libraries today and help lay the foundation for containers, images, and APK repositories over time
- Lead work on scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing for production systems that customers depend on directly
- Drive technical decisions around repository architecture, service boundaries, and the operational patterns needed to run artifact-serving infrastructure at scale
- Partner closely with engineers across Chainguard to create a cohesive repository experience and unlock support for more artifact types over time
- Mentor other engineers, raise the bar on design and code review, and act as a force multiplier in a fast-moving team where staff engineers are expected to own meaningful deliverables and help shape how the team works
Skills
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems, with clear evidence of staff-level ownership and technical leadership
- Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp quickly in Go
- Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems
- Experience deploying and managing services in production, with strong judgment around reliability, observability, performance, and operational tradeoffs
- Comfort working across application and infrastructure layers, including service development, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Strong systems instincts and curiosity: you proactively identify problems, chase them down, and improve the platform before issues become bottlenecks for customers or internal teams
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in a remote environment where staff engineers are expected to drive alignment across teams and help turn ambiguity into momentum
- Experience with package registries, artifact serving, repository products, or adjacent systems such as Docker registries, GitLab package services, Artifactory, Nexus, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts such as provenance, SBOMs, and trusted artifact distribution
- Open source experience, especially in tooling, package ecosystems, or infrastructure used by developers at scale
- Experience supporting or expanding multi-artifact repository platforms across libraries, containers, OS packages, or similar artifact types
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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