Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is a trusted source for open source, delivering hardened and secure builds for various organizations. The Staff Software Engineer will be part of the Containers team, responsible for developing new features, improving tooling and infrastructure, and maintaining product quality for Chainguard Images, while also mentoring engineers and guiding technical decisions.
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
Skills
- 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
- Author and/or contributor to open-source projects
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.
Company Overview
Chainguard is a cloud-native development platform that provides low-to-zero CVE container images for building and running applications. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.chainguard.dev.Company H1B Sponsorship
Chainguard has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.