Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform

🕒 August 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $231k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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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

• Own significant pieces of the Developer Platform across monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform, and shared build infrastructure • Contribute to technical direction alongside the team • Author technical architectural design documents • Coordinate across teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant, scalable, and maintainable software • Improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience of the monorepo CI/CD pipeline • Explore substrates beyond PR-based workflows for agent-driven changes • Enable trusted agents to commit directly to main with automated validation • Support AI-assisted review and auto-merge for low-risk changes • Productionize the Agentic AI platform, including observability, structured traces, costs, debuggability, shared memory, and context-engineering patterns • Consolidate fragmented build systems and deliver standardized paved-road blueprints • Partner with engineers across the company to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate repetitive work • Treat internal stakeholder teams as platform customers and anticipate developer needs • Mentor teammates and engineers • Raise the bar on design and code review • Act as a technical voice for engineering velocity and operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments • Proficiency with Go (Golang), or strong readiness to ramp quickly • Deep technical expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and tooling to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release • Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams • Experience evaluating tradeoffs, deprecating legacy systems, and building alignment around target architecture • Familiarity with Agentic AI / LLM-based automation in production • Interest in context engineering (RAG, memory, tool-calling) at engineering-platform scale • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and focused on data-driven improvements to product delivery • Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable build/workflow systems at high throughput • Experience scaling change-throughput beyond traditional PR workflows • Background in developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE) and instrumentation • Experience operating a large Go monorepo and related tooling • Familiarity with supply chain security, container ecosystems (OCI, Kubernetes), or open source software communities • Experience publishing internal-platform milestones and running stakeholder feedback loops

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely with team meetup opportunities • Bi-annual destination summits • Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs • Stock options upon hire and promotion • Participation in secondary offerings • 10 years to exercise stock options • 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents • Flexible time off • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents • 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents