Senior Software Engineer

🕒 June 16

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Chainguard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines • Take on ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability • Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale • Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs • Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems • Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon • Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering bar • Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling

🎯 Requirements

• Solid backend engineering foundation you've shipped and maintained production systems • Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience • You can navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach • Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation • Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight • Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plus • Security or infrastructure domain knowledge

🏖️ Benefits

• 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. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!). • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck. • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset. • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.