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Senior Software Engineer (Guarded OS)

2 weeks, 1 day ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
CI/CD GCP GitHub Go Grafana Kubernetes Linux Prometheus 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

  • Operate and develop the Elastic Build service that turns package specifications into downloadable artifacts.
  • Improve reliability, performance, resource usage, and multi-architecture support for the build pipeline.
  • Maintain and harden Melange, including usability, testing, patch management, and observability.
  • Design and build automation for rebuild and review workflows while preserving human approval steps.
  • Support shared library transitions using build-time and runtime dependency analysis.
  • Build monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and automated responses for common failure modes.
  • Define and deliver the 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 to keep Chainguard OS secure and up to date.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience with backend or distributed systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, with experience writing production services.
  • Ideally experience building a Kubernetes operator or custom controller.
  • Hands-on experience operating production services at scale and handling incidents.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and cloud-native service design.
  • Familiarity with GCP services such as BigQuery, IAM, and Cloud Logging.
  • Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems.
  • Ability to work independently and communicate clearly in a remote-first environment.
  • Preferred: experience contributing to or maintaining build, packaging, or tooling projects.
  • Preferred: observability and monitoring experience with tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Preferred: experience with Linux build or packaging systems.
  • Preferred: understanding of dependency management and rebuild automation.
  • Preferred: experience with ARM64 build environments.
  • Preferred: familiarity with BigQuery or Looker Studio for data analysis.

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 participation in secondary offerings.
  • 10 years to exercise stock options.
  • 100% company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Unlimited flexible time off.
  • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

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