Senior Software Engineer – Athena
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Senior Software Engineer building Chainguard’s Go-based vulnerability clearing house on GCP. Developing enterprise data pipelines, agentic workflows, and scalable security infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain core clearing-house components in Go on GCP, including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
- Own ambiguous problems and features or subsystems from design through production, including testing and observability
- Collaborate with staff and principal engineers on scalable architectural patterns
- Build backend systems that transform unstructured enterprise-customer data into structured, validated outputs
- Design, implement, and operate reliable agentic workflows across production systems
- Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems
- Become a go-to engineer for core subsystems and lead multi-engineer efforts
- Review code, provide direct feedback, and raise engineering standards
- Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling with Terraform and GCP-native tooling
Requirements:
- Solid backend engineering foundation; experience shipping and maintaining production systems
- Strong Go engineering skills
- GCP and Terraform experience
- Ability to navigate unstructured data problems, including parsing, validating, and deduplicating
- Experience with operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and graceful degradation
- Ability to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
- Experience with Agentic AI workflows
- Security or infrastructure domain knowledge
- Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plus
- Experience in security vulnerability domain, coordinated disclosure process, or CVE publication is nice to have
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.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion
- Participation in secondary offerings
- 10 years to exercise stock options
- 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
- Flexible time off
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year



















