Staff Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $231k / 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

• Own major parts of the system end to end, from design through implementation, rollout, and operation. • Build security into the foundation by protecting customer code end to end, implementing least-privilege access, and auditing system and operator activity. • Partner with Product and Security on threat models and reviews. • Make Chainguard Harness a reliable, observable, production-grade service. • Make long-term tradeoffs around scale, cost, technical debt, and build versus buy. • Work directly with customers, Product, and the field team. • Join customer calls and turn feedback into the roadmap. • Raise the team's standards through design documents, code review, and mentoring. • Demonstrate how AI tooling can help a small team move quickly without compromising security. • Own architecture and technical decisions while helping take the product from beta to a service that scales to more customers and environments.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development. • Track record of building and operating production services where security and data confidentiality were hard requirements. • Experience designing systems that hold confidential customer data end to end. • Experience shipping software into air-gapped, disconnected, or highly restricted environments. • Deep experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS, including IAM, KMS, networking, and infrastructure as code (Terraform). • Hands-on experience with virtualization and workload isolation, such as KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, gVisor, nested virtualization, or bare-metal hosts. • Working knowledge of applied cryptography: envelope encryption, key management and rotation, HSM/KMS-backed keys, and signing. • Proficiency with Go. • Experience with AI tooling and enthusiasm for applying it to hard problems; experience building agentic systems is a plus. • Strong communication skills and proficiency in English. • Ability to explain a security model to an engineer, security reviewer, and customer's CISO. • Ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and ask for help early. • Include the word DiscoTech in the resume.

🏖️ 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. • Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.

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