Staff Software Engineer – Guarded Containers

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Staff Software Engineer developing new features and improving tooling for Chainguard's container images. Collaborating with teams and mentoring engineers in a remote-first culture.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional teams to design innovative services and features that enhance the core product, making it more compelling and valuable.
  • Develop robust tools and services to continue to improve our image build system as it scales.
  • Own high-impact, deeply technical components of the Chainguard stack, serving as the subject matter expert in those areas
  • Participate in long-term planning and roadmap discussions, helping identify the key problems the team needs to solve and ensuring they get solved
  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, compilers, Makefiles, and toolchains
  • Expertise with containers, container registries, Docker, Kubernetes and its greater ecosystem
  • Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code, and proficiency in creating modules and organizing resources logically for reuse.
  • Experience writing services or tools in Go
  • Strong communication skills, proficiency in English, ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and seek help proactively when necessary.

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.
  • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.