Join the Package and Image Automation squad to design and implement systems that orchestrate package creation, test generation, and image building. The role focuses on building AI/LLM-integrated agentic pipelines, CLIs, services in Go, and quality tooling (test generators, validation frameworks, quality gates). Candidates should have 3–5 years of software engineering experience, strong Go skills, container ecosystem knowledge (Docker, OCI, registries, Kubernetes), and experience using AI/LLMs to generate, review, and test code.

Senior individual contributor responsible for setting the technical direction and delivering large, multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Hands-on role (writing and reviewing code) focused on container images, registries, the image build pipeline, adoption tooling, image signing, and observability. Requires 10+ years of experience, strong Go and cloud (GCP/AWS) knowledge, software supply chain security experience, and demonstrated technical leadership; remote with United States preferred (also open to Canada, the UK, and Germany).

Join the Platform team to design, implement, and own customer-facing backend services and public APIs consumed across multiple products. Requires 5+ years building production services and APIs, strong backend experience (Go preferred), familiarity with cloud-native architectures, containers, and Kubernetes, and experience with API design, observability, and resilient services.

Chainguard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform team to design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs. Requires 5+ years building production services in modern cloud environments, strong Go readiness, experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API design. Role is remote with a listed base salary range of $157,000–$184,000 USD.

Chainguard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform team to design, build, and operate customer-facing backend services and public APIs used across multiple products. The role requires 5+ years building production services in cloud environments, strong Go proficiency (or fast ramp-up), experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, observability, and cross-functional collaboration with Product and Experience teams. Position is remote-first for Canada.

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 seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Customer Platform team (remote in US/UK/Canada). The role owns features end-to-end, designs and implements backend systems and APIs in Go (REST/gRPC), integrates across engineering teams, extends AI into customer-facing features, and provides technical leadership and mentorship. Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs), entitlements/billing or platform infrastructure is noted as a plus. Base salary range: $205,000–$231,000 USD per year.

Lead and implement major features and services for Chainguard Containers, including hardened container images, the registry, image build pipelines, distribution optimizations, image signing, and adoption tooling. Hands-on role that sets architecture and leads sub-teams of 2–4 engineers. Requires 5+ years building and operating customer-facing software, strong architectural experience in Go, deep knowledge of containers/registries/OCI, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP or AWS), and experience working on distributed remote teams. No visa sponsorship or relocation support.

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.

Role owns features end-to-end for the Customer Platform: design, implement, roll out, and iterate backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC) that power entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. Acts as the primary technical interface to other engineering teams, extends AI capabilities into customer-facing experiences, and provides technical leadership and mentorship. Requires production Go experience, strong API and backend design/operation experience; familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs) and experience with entitlements/billing or AI features are noted as pluses.