At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · US
About ChainGuard
- 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:
About the role
- Chainguard is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own hard problems end to end, move without hand-holding, and serve as the technical anchor for the Customer Platform team.
- This team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that connect customers, partners, and internal product lines to the software supply chain.
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and partner Chainguard teams.
- Design, build, and evolve the backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) that power Chainguard's entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services.
- Serve as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other Chainguard engineering teams by understanding their requirements and building integration paths.
- Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers; help the team break down ambiguity and build toward clear outcomes.
- 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".
Requirements
- Production Go experience
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale; you've shipped and operated them in production
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to align on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure
- Comfort operating in ambiguity you come with a diagnosis, a recommendation, and a path forward, not just a problem statement
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without needing a management title to do it
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs) is a strong plus
- Experience with entitlements, billing systems, or platform infrastructure is a plus but not required
- Prior exposure to building or extending AI-powered product features is a plus
Benefits
- Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
- Stock options upon hire and promotion with 10 years to exercise options and participation in secondary offerings
- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
- Infinite flexible time off
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
Workplace
- Remote-first culture with team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits.
Skills
- Go
- REST
- gRPC
- Kubernetes
