Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform) - Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software and AI agents. We help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

The Role, in a Nutshell

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team, which owns the customer-facing platform capabilities that power Chainguard’s products, including our notification system, authentication, and the next generation of our public APIs. This is a highly impactful, highly visible role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment where you’ll design and build backend services and APIs consumed across multiple product lines.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs, ensuring they work well across different Chainguard products and customer segments.
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, partnering closely with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team.
• Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 5+ years of strong backend engineering experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
• Tech Stack: Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp up quickly.
• API Design: Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally, with strong knowledge of versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability.
• Cloud Native: Familiarity with microservices, cloud-native architectures, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to work effectively with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines.
• Startup Mindset: Thrives in a remote, high-paced, high-intensity "ship it" culture where you are self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity.

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience building platform or shared services spanning multiple products or customer experiences.
• Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem (CNCF space).
• Meaningful open source contributions as a maintainer or regular contributor.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Remote work with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
• Equity: Stock options upon hire and promotion, with secondary offering participation and a 10-year exercise window.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: 100% of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums covered for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Unlimited flexible time off.
• Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.