Principal Software Engineer – Containers

🔥 15 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

💵 $229k - $258k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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 Chainguard Containers, including the build pipeline, registry, and adoption tooling architecture over the next one to three years. • Form the roadmap with engineering and product leaders and execute sequenced, staffed technical plans. • Own delivery of the largest multi-team projects from concept through production and adoption. • Make and document product-level trade-offs, including build versus buy and re-platforming decisions. • Set design standards, review key designs and code, and develop Staff and Senior engineers into technical leaders. • Use AI coding agents in building, reviewing, and operating systems, and establish safe team practices. • Investigate issues across services, customer escalations, support tickets, and go-to-market data. • Represent Chainguard in the container and open source ecosystem through upstream work, standards conversations, talks, and customer discussions. • Maintain system health through observability, on-call, and structural incident-prevention fixes. • Build and lead development of hardened container images, registries, image build pipelines, distribution systems, and adoption tooling.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating software used by paying customers, including several years as the technical lead of large, multi-team projects at a startup or hyper-growth company. • Relevant experience with container images, container registries, OCI image format, Linux distributions or package management, build systems, or software supply chain security. • Visible work outside your employer, such as maintained open source, standards contributions, talks or writing cited by engineers, or industry-known systems. • Track record of technical leadership without authority. • Experience forming and executing roadmaps with engineering and product leaders. • Product-level judgment on trade-offs. • Systems-thinking across source, build, signing, distribution, and runtime. • High agency and urgency. • Daily use of agentic coding tools and experience changing team workflows through them. • Architectural depth in Go, including designing a Go service from scratch. • Strong API design, databases and caching, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS. • Excellent written English. • Experience leading on a distributed, remote-first team. • Nice to have: software supply chain security, SBOMs, Sigstore, SLSA, open-source maintenance/contributions, product adoption, Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience, or a non-traditional engineering path.

🏖️ 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. • Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. • Participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options. • 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. • Flexible time off. • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child's first year.