Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Remote · US · USD 157,000-184,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 6, 2026

At a glance

We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:

The Senior Software Engineer will join the Platform team to own customer-facing capabilities, including notification systems, authentication, and public APIs.
This role involves designing and building backend services that power multiple product lines in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs.
Ensure APIs and services function effectively across different Chainguard products and customer segments.
Own features end-to-end from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
Partner closely with Product Management and the Experience team to ship features.
Create technical design documents and drive design plans with clarity.
Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with clear outcomes and deadlines.
Prioritize tradeoffs to ship iteratively.

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 with knowledge of versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, 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.
Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment.

Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiences.
Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem.
Experience with tools in the broader CNCF space.
Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor.

Stock options upon hire and promotion with 10-year exercise window.
100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
Flexible Time Off (FTO).
18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents.
12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.