Software Engineer, Repositories

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $121k - $142k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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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

• Build and improve customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems. • Implement projects and features from technical design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration. • Develop and operate backend services in Go serving Libraries and supporting future containers, images, APKs, and other artifact types. • Contribute to scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing for production systems. • Participate in design discussions about service boundaries, APIs, data flows, and operational patterns. • Work with engineers and product partners across Chainguard. • Review code, ask questions, share knowledge, and contribute to a supportive engineering team. • Investigate and resolve production issues.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building software, with some experience working on backend or infrastructure systems. • Experience with Go, or strong programming experience in another language and the ability to learn Go quickly. • Experience contributing to software projects from implementation through testing and release. • Interest in building customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other backend systems. • Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, debugging, and version control. • Exposure to deploying or operating services in production, or a strong interest in developing those skills. • Systems-oriented mindset and curiosity. • Clear communication and a collaborative approach, including the ability to ask for help, incorporate feedback, and work effectively in a remote environment. • 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems. (Nice to have.) • Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to become productive in Go quickly. (Nice to have.) • Experience owning backend or infrastructure projects from design through production operation. (Nice to have.) • Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems. (Nice to have.) • Strong judgment around reliability, observability, performance, security, and operational tradeoffs. (Nice to have.) • Experience deploying and managing services in production, including familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform. (Nice to have.)

🏖️ 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. • 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 and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable all at once or throughout the child's first year. • Team meetup opportunities. • Bi-annual destination summits.