Principal Software Engineer – Athena

🕒 June 18

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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 technical direction for the Athena clearing house by making the hard architectural calls on data validation pipelines, customer entitlement systems, workflow orchestration, upstream reconciliation, OSV publication, and coalition interfaces. Scale the team and the product area. • Define and drive the transition from rapid prototyping to a sustainable, production-grade product stack including observability, incident handling, and operational rigor • Partner with staff engineers to establish domain ownership and technical standards across the team • Lead the design of systems that process unstructured vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, deduplicate findings, and surface clean signals to the libraries remediation team • Identify and retire technical debt introduced during the team's high-velocity prototyping phase • Serve as a thought partner on build-vs-buy decisions, capacity planning, and long-term architectural bets • Contribute to a hiring bar that brings in engineers who can sustain serious output without burning out

🎯 Requirements

• A track record of setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems raising the entire team's ceiling • Deep fluency in Go and experience with GCP and Terraform is a must; polyglot engineers who can pick up new stacks quickly are welcome • Ability to work with messy, unstructured data validating, deduplicating, and extracting signal from real-world enterprise inputs • Experience transitioning teams from fast-moving prototypes to maintainable systems, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, on-call • You've built systems that handle multiple customer types with different entitlements, access levels, and interaction patterns • Comfort operating across the full backend stack workflows, data pipelines, APIs with minimal hand-holding • Opinions about cost-efficient AI usage and resource allocation are a plus • Prior background in security-adjacent domains (supply chain, vulnerability management, cloud security)

🏖️ 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.