Software Engineer – Sustaining Automation

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $121k - $142k / 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

• Contribute to the design and implementation of systems that orchestrate package creation, test generation, and image building. • Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. • Help design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates. • Develop CLI tools, services, and integrations in Go. • Develop tooling and automation including test generators, validation frameworks, and quality gates to improve customer reliability. • Contribute ideas and technical input into planning and help shape the squad roadmap. • Collaborate with teammates across US/Canada time zones and EU- and India-based colleagues on adjacent squads.

🎯 Requirements

• 3-5 years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building and shipping production systems • Strong Go skills • Experience with AI/LLM usage to generate, review, and test code • Systems design skills: ability to contribute to loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs • Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms • Container ecosystem knowledge: Docker, OCI, container registries, Kubernetes • Strong communication skills: ability to write clear technical documents, work autonomously, and collaborate across teams and time zones • Based in the US or Canada • Nice to have: Experience working on or contributing to a Linux distribution (e.g., Wolfi, Red Hat, Ubuntu, or similar) • Nice to have: Background maintaining a large number of services in production • Nice to have: Contributions to open-source projects • Nice to have: Familiarity with software supply chain security (SBOM, provenance, signing) • Nice to have: Experience with melange, apko, or Wolfi • Nice to have: Understanding of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG)

🏖️ 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.