Chainguard is hiring a Senior Product Security Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates; implement software supply chain controls (signed artifacts, SBOMs, SLSA, Sigstore/Cosign); and lead security architecture and threat modeling for Kubernetes workloads on GCP and AWS. Requires 5+ years of relevant engineering/security experience and strong hands-on skills in Go or Python, Kubernetes hardening, cloud IAM/secrets, container security, and CI/CD tooling.

Chainguard seeks an Engineering Manager to own a portfolio (Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, Chainguard Agent Skills, microVM-based products), hire and grow a small engineering team, stay technically hands-on (code/PR review, prototyping), and partner with Product. Requires 2+ years managing engineers, strong technical background, proficiency or readiness to ramp in Go, and experience with CI/CD, developer tooling, containers, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and AI tooling. Base salary range listed: $229,000–$258,000 USD.

Provide technical frontline support and triage for enterprise customers using Chainguard Images; investigate complex issues involving containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (Helm charts, Terraform); escalate to Engineering, document issues and contribute to the knowledge base; participate in on-call rotation. Requires 5+ years supporting enterprise customers and 3+ years with Linux, Docker and Kubernetes.

Chainguard is hiring a remote Software Engineer for the Repositories team to build and operate customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving backend services primarily implemented in Go. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and production operations of package registries and other artifact types. Candidates should have 2+ years of software development experience, backend or infrastructure exposure, and familiarity with testing, code review, debugging, version control, and optionally cloud infrastructure or Terraform.

Chainguard seeks a Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure) to secure and evolve its multi-cloud platform that powers the product. The role embeds with product engineering teams, leads cloud hardening, disaster recovery exercises, automation and guardrails (Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes/GKE, CI/CD), partners on IAM, supports incident response, and helps secure AI-driven pipelines. Hands-on GCP or AWS experience is required; Azure is a plus. Listed base salary range: $137,000–$160,000 USD per year.

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Platform Database Engineer to inventory, design, and operate scalable, resilient database infrastructure across the company. Responsibilities include defining platform strategy, improving resiliency (replication, HA, backups, DR, migrations, capacity planning), building automation and tooling, writing production code, and leading cross-team initiatives. Requirements include 8+ years building and operating production database/platform infrastructure, strong PostgreSQL and MySQL experience, production experience with replication/HA/backups/migrations, cloud experience (AWS and Google Cloud), Linux, and proficiency in Go. Salary range provided: $205,000—$231,000 USD.

Chainguard seeks a Staff Software Engineer on the Package and Image Automation team to design and build the automation platform that orchestrates package creation, test generation, and image building. The role requires strong Go expertise, experience integrating LLMs/agentic workflows, deep Linux and build-system knowledge, and familiarity with container ecosystems (Docker/OCI/Kubernetes). Candidates should be based in the US or Canada and have 7+ years of software engineering experience.

Chainguard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Sustaining Automation team to design and build automation that orchestrates package creation, test generation, and image building. The role requires 5+ years of experience, strong Go expertise, LLM/AI integration experience, deep Linux and build-systems knowledge, and container ecosystem familiarity; candidates should be based in the US or Canada.

Chainguard seeks a Senior Software Engineer (AI CICD) to build and secure CI/CD systems and extend agentic AI into product experiences. Requires 5+ years' software development experience, expertise with containers, Docker, Kubernetes, artifact registries, proficiency with Go or willingness to ramp, and experience with AI tooling. Remote roles available for the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe.

Work on Chainguard Containers to design, build, and ship product features and the systems that produce hardened, signed, and attested container images at scale. Responsibilities include registry performance, image build pipelines, tooling for adoption (Helm, Dockerfile migration, MCP), observability/on-call, and collaborating with Product and customers. Role is remote (United States preferred; Canada, United Kingdom, Germany supported). Chainguard cannot provide visa sponsorship or relocation for this role.