Staff Software Engineer

Chainguard

7d • $170,000 - $231,000 • Remote

About The Position

Chainguard secures the open source supply chain, the infrastructure underneath the majority of the software running in production today. This team is building Athena, the system that makes that possible at enterprise scale. We process vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, validate and deduplicate findings, and route clean signals to remediation. We are building the clearing house that sits between enterprise customers and our remediation engine. This is a staff-level role for an engineer ready to own a domain end-to-end, set technical standards, and be a force multiplier for a small, high-performing team moving fast toward production.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a clear track record of owning large, complex systems in production
• Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
• Experience building systems that process and validate data from heterogeneous, unstructured sources with an analytical, research-based mindset
• You've taken a business problem from prototype or MVP to a reliable, scalable production service
• Experience designing systems with multiple customer entitlement levels, access controls, and workflow routing
• Comfortable with observability tooling: you don't just ship features, you make sure they're healthy in production

Nice To Haves

• Background in security, supply chain, or infrastructure domains is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

• Long-term ownership of a significant domain within the clearing house: customer onboarding workflows, entitlement management, or data validation pipelines
• Drive the architecture and implementation of backend systems in Go on GCP, ensuring they're production-ready: tested, observable, and maintainable
• Lead the design of data pipelines that ingest unstructured vulnerability reports, deduplicate findings, and produce clean structured outputs
• Establish and model engineering best practices for the team: code review standards, testing, incident response
• Partner closely with the principal engineer and manager on technical planning, architecture alignment and roadmap sequencing
• Collaborate with the libraries team on interface contracts and data quality requirements

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.
• Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed