Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Join Chainguard as a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team. In this highly impactful role, you will design and build backend services and APIs that power our customer-facing platform capabilities. You will own features end-to-end, create technical design documents, and contribute to a product-driven roadmap. This position offers equity/stock options, unlimited PTO, remote work flexibility, and comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family.

Design and build backend services and APIs that are consumed across multiple product lines, ensuring they work well for all customer segments.

About Chainguard

• We’re looking for someone who wants to move quickly, cares deeply about quality and reliability, and is energized by working across products rather than owning a single narrow service
• Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly — we write everything in Go and expect you to get there fast

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end, from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience team.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient in production
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services. You can talk about topics like versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
• Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment: A genuine interest in a high-paced, high-intensity, “ship it” culture where you’re self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and working with people who will challenge you to grow as a developer

Preferred

• Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiences
• Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with tools in the broader CNCF space
• Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects

Pay

USD 157,000 - 184,000