Staff Software Engineer

🕒 September 11

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $205k - $231k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack 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

• Set the squad's technical vision, roadmap, and priorities with engineering leadership • Design the end-to-end automation platform for package creation, test generation, and image building • Own scalable technical decisions • Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation • Design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates • Build production Go CLI tools, services, and integrations • Develop test generators, validation frameworks, and quality gates • Mentor less experienced teammates and raise engineering quality • Collaborate with distributed teammates across US, Canada, EU, and India time zones

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience designing and building complex systems • Strong Go expertise • Experience with AI/LLM integration for code generation, automation, or developer tooling • Exposure to agentic workflows is a strong plus • Ability to design loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs • Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms • Deep Linux and build systems knowledge • Experience with package managers such as apk, apt, and rpm • Experience with build tools such as Make, Bazel, and language-specific toolchains • Containerization experience • Expertise with Docker, OCI, container registries, and Kubernetes • Ability to influence roadmap and priorities • Ability to write clear technical documents, work autonomously, and collaborate across teams and time zones • Based in the US or Canada

🏖️ 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 • Unlimited flexible time off • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents • 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents • Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year