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

Description

  • Lead the design and implementation of core Libraries Platform services, pipelines, and package index components.
  • Design and maintain automation for artifact creation, updates, verification, vulnerability scanning, remediation, SBOM/provenance generation, and policy enforcement.
  • Build and operate shared platform services such as package indexes, registry mirrors, metadata services, and orchestration tooling.
  • Develop internal developer tools and CLIs, often in Go, to improve how libraries are built, tested, and shipped at scale.
  • Integrate platform tooling with build systems and CI/CD workflows across multiple ecosystems.
  • Drive reliability, scalability, and observability by defining SLOs, building monitoring and alerting, and leading incident response.
  • Solve complex dependency, toolchain, compiler, CI/CD, and registry/package index issues in production.
  • Partner with ecosystem, Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security teams to meet reliability, security, and product requirements.
  • Mentor and unblock other engineers through design reviews, documentation, and hands-on debugging.

Requirements

  • 5+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms.
  • Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or the ability to ramp quickly.
  • Experience building and owning developer tooling and automation such as plugins, CLIs, code generators, or custom pipelines.
  • Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native infrastructure, and IaC.
  • Experience with containers, including Docker/OCI and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Experience with infrastructure and delivery tools such as Terraform and GitHub Actions, Argo, or Tekton.
  • Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve complex toolchain, compiler, packaging, and infrastructure failures in production.
  • Comfort working across SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps responsibilities.
  • Excellent communication in a remote, distributed environment with strong documentation and collaboration habits.
  • An ownership mindset with comfort shaping technical direction in an early, high-impact area.
  • Open source contributions in ecosystem tooling, libraries, or packaging (nice to have).
  • Experience with software supply chain security, including SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, provenance, attestations, or secure-by-default packaging (nice to have).
  • Background with Linux distributions, packaging, and reproducible build systems such as Alpine, Wolfi, Debian, Bazel, CMake, or Ninja (nice to have).
  • Familiarity with AI/ML packaging and infrastructure for native Python libraries or ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow in cloud/Kubernetes environments (nice to have).
  • Prior experience in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps roles supporting developer productivity or large language-ecosystem codebases (nice to have).

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, with participation in secondary offerings and 10 years to exercise options.
  • 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
  • Unlimited flexible time off.
  • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
  • An inclusive hiring approach that encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet every requirement.

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