Staff Software Engineer, .NET

Chainguard

Staff Software Engineer focusing on infrastructure in the .NET ecosystem for Chainguard Libraries. Collaborate on build and packaging pipelines for high-quality .NET artifacts.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $205,000 - $231,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes.NETTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own architecture and direction for .NET ecosystem infrastructure, enabling secure, reproducible build, test, and distribution workflows for .NET libraries and SDKs.
Design and maintain automation for building, updating, validating, and publishing .NET artifacts (NuGet packages), including vulnerability scanning, remediation, SBOMs, and provenance.
Build internal developer tools (dotnet build and MSBuild tasks/targets, NuGet tooling, CLIs, code generators) that improve how we build and maintain .NET packages at scale.
Integrate deeply with dotnet projects, NuGet, and artifact repositories, solving complex dependency and version-resolution issues in large codebases and mono-repos.
Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape the .NET libraries roadmap and deliver on key business outcomes for Chainguard Libraries.
Mentor and unblock other engineers through design reviews, documentation, and hands-on debugging of build and infrastructure issues.
Partner with Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security to ensure .NET pipelines and services meet reliability and security expectations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years working in the .NET ecosystem (C# or similar) on build systems, packaging, or developer tooling, ideally on platform/infra or ecosystem teams.
Proven experience building and owning MSBuild extensions, NuGet tooling, CI/CD automation, or internal frameworks/tools for .NET libraries or services.
Deep familiarity with building, publishing and consuming in the .NET ecosystem (multi-project/solution builds, dependency graphs, publishing to registries).
Strong background in orchestrating large codebases or mono-repos and fixing dependency and build failures in production environments.
Proficiency in Go for build orchestration tooling, CLIs, and automation — the team's primary language for pipeline and glue code.
Experience with Terraform for managing infrastructure as code.
Demonstrated ability to debug toolchain, compiler, and packaging issues at scale and drive them to resolution.
Experience with cloud-native environments: containers (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes), public cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure), and modern CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Argo, Tekton, or similar).
Background in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering — experience at the intersection of build systems and production reliability is a core expectation, not a nice-to-have.
Excellent communication in a remote, distributed setup. Comfortable working across product, infra, and security, and mentoring peers at senior levels.
A staff-level ownership mindset: you define direction, own critical outcomes, and thrive in an early, high-impact area where engineers help set the roadmap.
Systems thinking mindset: comfortable directing, reviewing, and validating software regardless of how it's produced — including AI-assisted workflows — and owning outcomes end-to-end.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

.NETC#MSBuildNuGetCI/CDGoTerraformDockerKubernetescloud-native

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingownership mindsetsystems thinking