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Principal Software Engineer (Athena)

1 month ago
United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
GCP Go Terraform
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Chainguard

Chainguard

Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery Security for developers and CISOs, ensuring secure by default infrastructure and zero workflow friction.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2021
$55M raised
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Description

  • Set the technical direction for Athena’s clearing house, including architecture decisions across validation pipelines, entitlement systems, workflow orchestration, upstream reconciliation, OSV publication, and coalition interfaces.
  • Lead the evolution of the product from rapid prototyping to a sustainable, production-grade stack with strong observability, incident handling, and operational rigor.
  • Partner with staff engineers to define domain ownership and establish technical standards across the team.
  • Design systems that ingest unstructured vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, deduplicate findings, and surface clean signals to the remediation team.
  • Identify and remove technical debt introduced during the team’s high-velocity prototyping phase.
  • Advise on build-vs-buy decisions, capacity planning, and long-term architectural investments.
  • Contribute to hiring and help set a bar for engineers who can sustain high output without burning out.
  • Scale the team and the product area as Athena grows.

Requirements

  • Track record of setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems.
  • Deep fluency in Go; experience with GCP and Terraform is required.
  • Experience working with messy, unstructured data and extracting signal through validation and deduplication.
  • Experience helping teams transition from prototypes to maintainable systems, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and on-call practices.
  • Experience building systems that support multiple customer types with different entitlements, access levels, and interaction patterns.
  • Comfort working across the full backend stack, including workflows, data pipelines, and APIs, with minimal hand-holding.
  • Security-adjacent background in supply chain, vulnerability management, or cloud security is preferred.
  • Polyglot engineers who can quickly learn new stacks are welcome.
  • Opinions about cost-efficient AI usage and resource allocation are a plus.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote-first work environment with team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits.
  • Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.
  • Stock options upon hire and promotion, plus eligibility for secondary offerings.
  • 10 years to exercise stock options.
  • 100% company-covered health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Unlimited flexible time off.
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

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