Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform) - Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

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. You’ll design and build backend services and APIs that are consumed across multiple product lines, partnering closely with Product and the Experience team to ship features that customers rely on every day.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities.
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership 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

• Strong backend engineering experience (5+ years) building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
• Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly — we write everything in Go.
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services.
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multiple product lines.
• Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment with a high-paced, high-intensity culture.

Nice To Have

• Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products.
• 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: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion, with 10 years to exercise your options and participation in secondary offerings.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.