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Senior Software Engineer (Sustaining Automation)

2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Europe, United States, Canada
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
Docker Go Kubernetes Linux
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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

  • Architect the end-to-end automation platform for package creation, test generation, and image building.
  • Own the technical vision for the fulfillment platform and make scalable architecture decisions.
  • Build AI-powered tooling and LLM-integrated agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation.
  • Design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates for AI-assisted workflows.
  • Develop production Go CLI tools, services, and integrations alongside the team.
  • Build automation and validation tooling that improves customer reliability and image quality.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to identify high-impact problems and shape the roadmap.
  • Participate in long-term planning for the organization and help guide technical direction.
  • Work closely with a small engineering team and raise the bar for engineering quality.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience with a track record of designing and building complex systems.
  • Strong Go expertise.
  • Experience integrating AI/LLMs into code generation, automation, or developer tooling.
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails.
  • Systems architecture experience with loosely coupled, scalable systems and pragmatic trade-offs.
  • Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms.
  • Deep Linux and build systems knowledge, including package managers such as apk, apt, and rpm.
  • Experience with build tools such as Make, Bazel, or language-specific toolchains, plus containerization.
  • Container ecosystem expertise with Docker, OCI, container registries, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong communication skills, including clear technical writing and the ability to work autonomously and across teams.
  • Contributions to open-source projects are preferred.
  • Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts such as SBOM, provenance, and signing is preferred.
  • Experience with melange, apko, or Wolfi is preferred.
  • Understanding of compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, FIPS, and STIG is preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $157,000 to $184,000 USD.
  • Flexible, remote-first work culture 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 access to secondary offerings and 10 years to exercise 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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