Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Staff engineer building Chainguard’s internal CI/CD, build, and Agentic AI platform. Enabling secure open-source software delivery at scale for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities:
- Own significant pieces of the Developer Platform across monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform, and shared build infrastructure
- Contribute to technical direction alongside the team
- Author technical architectural design documents
- Coordinate across teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant, scalable, and maintainable software
- Improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience of the monorepo CI/CD pipeline
- Explore substrates beyond PR-based workflows for agent-driven changes
- Enable trusted agents to commit directly to main with automated validation
- Support AI-assisted review and auto-merge for low-risk changes
- Productionize the Agentic AI platform, including observability, structured traces, costs, debuggability, shared memory, and context-engineering patterns
- Consolidate fragmented build systems and deliver standardized paved-road blueprints
- Partner with engineers across the company to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate repetitive work
- Treat internal stakeholder teams as platform customers and anticipate developer needs
- Mentor teammates and engineers
- Raise the bar on design and code review
- Act as a technical voice for engineering velocity and operational excellence
Requirements:
- 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments
- Proficiency with Go (Golang), or strong readiness to ramp quickly
- Deep technical expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and tooling to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release
- Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams
- Experience evaluating tradeoffs, deprecating legacy systems, and building alignment around target architecture
- Familiarity with Agentic AI / LLM-based automation in production
- Interest in context engineering (RAG, memory, tool-calling) at engineering-platform scale
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and focused on data-driven improvements to product delivery
- Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable build/workflow systems at high throughput
- Experience scaling change-throughput beyond traditional PR workflows
- Background in developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE) and instrumentation
- Experience operating a large Go monorepo and related tooling
- Familiarity with supply chain security, container ecosystems (OCI, Kubernetes), or open source software communities
- Experience publishing internal-platform milestones and running stakeholder feedback loops
Benefits:
- Work remotely with team meetup opportunities
- Bi-annual destination summits
- 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
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
Similar Jobs
Virtual Platform Engineer
Virtual Platform Engineer operating enterprise VMware virtualization, networking, and storage platforms. Supporting cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions for U.S. clients.
Staff Platform Engineer
Staff Platform Engineer building self-service platform automation for Vultr’s global cloud infrastructure. Designing scalable architecture and developer tooling across engineering teams.
Senior Adobe Experience Platform Engineer
AEP Engineer scaling Esri’s GIS technology data platforms and customer analytics. Managing data collection, governance, CDP activation, and reliable cross-channel insights.
Senior DevOps, Platform Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer operating CI/CD pipelines, Docker Swarm and cloud VPS deployments for Stellar Telecommunications’ STEER® connectivity software suite. Managing releases, observability and secrets across lab, dev and production environments.
Virtual Platform Engineer
Virtual Platform Engineer operating enterprise VMware virtualization, networking, and storage platforms. Supporting hybrid cloud and cloud-native workloads for technology consulting company Bright Vision Technologies.
Manager, Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering Manager owning LegitScript’s auditable AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes deployment platform. Leading automation, CI/CD, reliability, compliance, and developer self-service.
Technical Consultant – Cloud & Platform Engineering
Rapid Solutions Pod Lead owning client engagements and leading engineers at AHEAD, which builds digital business platforms. Evolving repeatable cloud, platform engineering, and AI transformation offerings.
Principal Platform Engineer, ServiceNow
Principal Platform Engineer designing and supporting ServiceNow technology solutions for Fifth Third Bank. Owning vendor platforms, improving operational excellence, and partnering with agile product teams.
Senior Manager – Platform Engineering
Senior Manager leading cloud infrastructure and corporate IT for Opala’s healthcare data SaaS platform. Architecting secure, scalable systems and championing DevOps, reliability, and team growth.
Senior Platform Engineer – AI Platform
Senior Platform Engineer building agentic AI systems and AWS infrastructure for Porch’s home-inspection software platform. Owning PHP services, ECS operations, and MySQL/Aurora performance at scale.
Senior Platform Engineer – SRE
Senior Platform Engineer building multi-region AWS infrastructure for ScorePlay’s AI-powered sports media platform. Owning Kubernetes, storage, event streaming, developer experience and reliability at petabyte scale.
Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer
Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer supporting DysrupIT’s Nephos technology services. Operating AWS, Linux, databases, containers, monitoring and enterprise production platforms.
Analytics Platform Engineer
Analytics Platform Engineer building governed Power BI and Microsoft Fabric reporting solutions. Supporting parcel logistics customers through scalable models, dashboards, and AI-enabled analytics.
Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer designing GPU infrastructure and GenAI platforms for Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering company. Optimizing distributed training, LLMOps, and production AI deployments across cloud and on-premises environments.
Staff Platform Engineer
Staff Platform Engineer defining cloud and DevSecOps strategy for Robots & Pencils’ enterprise AI systems. Leading Kubernetes, AI/ML infrastructure, migrations, reliability, security, and platform standards remotely in Canada.
Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer II building cloud automation and AI-enabled engineering tools for First American’s title-insurance technology solutions. Improving CI/CD, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
Platform Engineer II
Platform Engineer II automating cloud infrastructure and developer tooling for Bestow’s life-insurance technology platform. Improving reliability, observability, CI/CD, and DevOps productivity.
Machine Learning Platform Engineer
ML platform engineer building training, deployment, inference, and observability infrastructure. Powering A1’s proactive smart assistant with reliable, scalable, cost-efficient AI systems.
Machine Learning Platform Engineer
ML platform engineer building infrastructure for A1’s proactive smart assistant. Developing scalable training, inference, observability, and deployment systems for reliable AI products.
Machine Learning Platform Engineer
ML Platform Engineer building infrastructure for A1’s proactive smart assistant. Enabling reliable model training, deployment, inference, observability, and continuous improvement.