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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 the technical strategy for scaling across multiple language ecosystems • Define ecosystem-agnostic and extensible architecture for package indexing, build orchestration, and metadata services • Lead end-to-end CVE remediation automation from detection through verified release • Direct agentic/AI-driven security patch generation and establish safety guardrails • Set platform-wide technical direction across package indexes, build and packaging pipelines, registry mirrors, and orchestration tooling • Make build-versus-buy and sequencing decisions for .NET, Go, and Rust support • Partner with Ecosystem, Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security teams on the platform roadmap • Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and lead architectural design reviews • Write documentation and RFCs for platform users • Define SLOs and lead incident response and postmortems • Troubleshoot toolchain, compiler, and dependency-resolution issues across ecosystems

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms • Principal-level scope setting technical direction across multiple teams • Experience standing up or significantly extending support for a language ecosystem • Ideally experience with .NET/NuGet, Go/modules, or Rust/Cargo • Strong proficiency in Go • Track record of automating manual remediation workflows • Deep experience with CI/CD, agentic pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and infrastructure as code • Experience with Docker/OCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, Argo, Tekton, or equivalents • Experience running infrastructure at scale across heterogeneous ecosystems • Ability to diagnose and resolve toolchain, compiler, and packaging failures across multiple ecosystems • Excellent written communication in a remote, distributed environment • Principal ownership mindset and ability to make ecosystem-generalization decisions with incomplete information • Nice to have: software supply chain security background including SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, provenance, attestations, and secure-by-default packaging • Nice to have: Linux distributions, packaging, and reproducible build systems including Alpine, Wolfi, Debian, Bazel, CMake, and Ninja • Nice to have: AI/ML packaging and infrastructure including PyTorch and TensorFlow in cloud/Kubernetes environments • Nice to have: experience leading a platform through a major increase in automation maturity

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: 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 you and your dependents • 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