Join Chainguard's Developer Platform to own significant pieces of monorepo CI/CD, shared build infrastructure, and the Agentic AI platform. The role focuses on scaling change throughput beyond PR workflows, improving developer experience, productionizing agent observability and memory, and driving platform-wide technical direction. Requires 8+ years building and operating production services in cloud environments; Go proficiency preferred.

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Customer Platform team (remote: US, UK, Canada). The role owns end-to-end design and implementation of backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) for entitlements, policy, and customer onboarding, serves as a technical interface to other engineering teams, and extends AI-driven product experiences. The posting highlights production Go experience, API and backend systems expertise, cloud-native familiarity (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs), and mentorship/technical leadership responsibilities.

Chainguard seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC) for entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. The role involves cross-team integration, extending AI features into customer experiences, and providing technical leadership and mentorship for the Customer Platform team.

Individual-contributor Staff role responsible for operating and scaling a pipeline of novel vulnerabilities (identification, measurement, disclosure and reporting), running a CNA program to assign CVEs, coordinating embargoes with customers and maintainers, and representing Chainguard with industry and public-sector bodies (e.g., Linux Foundation, CISA). Requires 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management and practical experience automating pipelines and working with open source communities. Familiarity with Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go and security research/pen testing or bug bounty experience are listed as nice-to-have.

Lead technical ownership of a high-volume novel vulnerabilities pipeline: measure, disclose, and report vulnerabilities identified by frontier models and other sources; automate and calibrate response processes; run a CNA program and assign CVEs where needed; coordinate embargoes with customers, internal teams, and maintainers; and represent Chainguard with bodies such as the Linux Foundation and CISA. Requires 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management.

Lead the management of a large pipeline of novel vulnerabilities identified by frontier models and other sources, including measurement, disclosure, CVE/CNA handling, embargo coordination, and cross-industry collaboration with bodies such as the Linux Foundation and CISA. Requires 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management and strong experience automating large-scale processes.

Lead architecture and strategy for the Libraries Platform to onboard new language ecosystems (.NET, Go, Rust), automate CVE remediation from detection to release, and set platform-wide direction for package indexing, build pipelines, registry mirrors, and orchestration. Requires 12+ years building and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms, strong Go proficiency, experience with CI/CD, containers/Kubernetes, Terraform, pipeline tooling (GitHub Actions/Argo/Tekton), and demonstrated ability to automate manual remediation workflows. Remote (United Kingdom) role.

Lead technical direction for Chainguard's Libraries Platform to generalize package indexing, build orchestration, and remediation across ecosystems (e.g., .NET, Go, Rust). Responsible for driving end-to-end CVE remediation automation, agentic/AI-driven patch synthesis guardrails, platform reliability (SLOs, incidents), and mentoring senior engineers. Remote role based in Canada; requires 12+ years of relevant infrastructure/platform experience.

Lead architecture and automation for a platform that builds, verifies, and serves open-source libraries across ecosystems (.NET, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python). Responsibilities include designing ecosystem-agnostic indexing and build services, end-to-end CVE remediation automation, agentic/AI patch workflows, reliability/SLO ownership, and mentoring across teams. Requires 12+ years of relevant experience and strong proficiency in Go, CI/CD, cloud-native infrastructure, and toolchain troubleshooting.

Senior/Staff engineering role focused on building and securing CI/CD and AI-driven product experiences across Chainguard's suite (including GitHub Actions, agent features, and hardened builds). Responsibilities include owning features end-to-end, contributing to architecture, working with Product and front-end teams, and extending agentic AI into customer-facing products. Required: 10+ years software development experience, proficiency with containers, artifact registries, Docker, Kubernetes, experience building/securing CI/CD systems, and Go or strong readiness to ramp; experience with AI tooling and strong English communication skills.

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.

Remote Software Engineer role focused on designing, implementing, and operating the Libraries Platform: package indexes, build and packaging pipelines, automation for SBOM/provenance and vulnerability workflows, and developer tooling (often in Go). Requires ~3+ years building and running infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms and experience with CI/CD, cloud‑native tooling, and observability.

Join Chainguard's Libraries Platform team to design, implement, and operate core services, build and packaging pipelines, and a package index serving multiple language ecosystems. Responsibilities include automation for artifact creation and verification (SBOM, provenance, vulnerability remediation), CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure work, reliability and observability, and developing developer tools (often in Go).

Join the Developer Platform team to build and operate internal platform systems including CI/CD, an Agentic AI platform (DriftlessAF), shared build infrastructure, and validation/release foundations. Requires 4+ years building and operating production services in cloud environments, proficiency or strong readiness to ramp in Go, and experience with CI/CD, container orchestration, and monorepo tooling. Base salary range provided: $157,000–$184,000 USD per year.

Staff Software Engineer to own technical direction for Chainguard Repository's customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating high-availability backend services (primarily in Go), driving scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing, and collaborating across teams. Requires 8+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems. Salary range provided: $170,000–$231,000 USD per year. Nice-to-haves include experience with package registries, artifact platforms, and software supply chain security (SBOMs, provenance).

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Repository team to own technical direction for customer-facing registries, APIs, and high-availability backend services. The role focuses on building and operating production systems at scale (strong Go or equivalent backend skills), reliability, observability, load testing, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform). Remote, United Kingdom.

Senior staff-level backend/infrastructure role responsible for designing, building, and operating high-availability repository services and package registries in Go. The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, observability, cloud infrastructure (including Terraform), and expanding repository support for multiple artifact types. Candidates should have significant production backend/infrastructure experience (8+ years) and technical leadership experience.

Role involves designing and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates, hardening Kubernetes-based workloads on GCP and AWS, implementing supply chain security controls (SBOMs, provenance, signing), and driving baseline security standards and tooling adoption.

Chainguard seeks a Staff Software Engineer (remote, US) to lead design and delivery of feature-driven, cross-cutting projects for Chainguard Images. Requires 10+ years' software development experience, deep expertise with containers, registries, Docker, Kubernetes, strong Go experience, familiarity with Terraform/IaC, and experience mentoring engineers and making high-leverage architectural decisions.

Join Chainguard's Platform team to design, build, and own customer-facing backend services and public APIs consumed across multiple products. Requires 5+ years building production services and APIs in cloud environments, strong Go proficiency (or rapid ramp), and experience with microservices, containers, and Kubernetes. Base salary range: $157,000–$184,000 USD per year.