Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Remote · US · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 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:

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team, which owns the customer-facing platform capabilities that power Chainguard’s products, including our notification system, authentication, and the next generation of our public APIs.
This is a highly impactful, highly visible role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
You’ll design and build backend services and APIs that are consumed across multiple product lines, partnering closely with Product and the Experience team to ship features that customers rely on every day.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, and ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them.
Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team.
Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence.
Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for "perfect."

Strong backend engineering experience 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly — we write everything in Go and expect you to get there fast.
Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services.
Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient in production.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines.
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, or with tools in the broader CNCF space.
Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects.

Flexible & Remote-First Culture with monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options
100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
∞ Flexible Time Off
18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave (18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents)

Flexible & Remote-First Culture with work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits