Staff Software Engineer – Guarded Containers

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $231k / year

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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

• Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional teams to design innovative services and features that enhance the core product, making it more compelling and valuable. • Develop robust tools and services to continue to improve our image build system as it scales. • Own high-impact, deeply technical components of the Chainguard stack, serving as the subject matter expert in those areas • Participate in long-term planning and roadmap discussions, helping identify the key problems the team needs to solve and ensuring they get solved • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, compilers, Makefiles, and toolchains • Expertise with containers, container registries, Docker, Kubernetes and its greater ecosystem • Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code, and proficiency in creating modules and organizing resources logically for reuse. • Experience writing services or tools in Go • Strong communication skills, proficiency in English, ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and seek help proactively when necessary.

🏖️ 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. • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!). • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck. • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset. • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.