
Principal Software Engineer (Athena)
Chainguard seeks a principal-level engineer to lead architecture and operationalization of Athena, a system that ingests and processes enterprise vulnerability reports. Responsibilities include setting technical direction for data validation pipelines, entitlement systems, workflow orchestration, scaling to production-grade operations (observability, incident handling, SLOs), and partnering on build-vs-buy and capacity planning. Required strengths include distributed systems experience, deep fluency in Go, and experience with GCP and Terraform.










