Senior Software Engineer – Customer Platform

🕒 October 13

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛠️ Implementation Specialist

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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

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs • Understand how different products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities • Ensure APIs and services work well across products and customer segments • Own features end-to-end from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration • Partner closely with Product Management and the Experience front-end team • Create technical design documents and drive design plans • Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes • Help prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment • Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly • Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services • Real-world knowledge of API versioning, backwards compatibility, authentication, and usability • Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes • Ability to build services that are observable and resilient in production • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines • Ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment; self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity • Prior experience building platform or shared services spanning multiple products or customer experiences (preferred) • Experience in cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or broader CNCF tools (preferred) • Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor (preferred)

🏖️ 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 • Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year

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