Staff Software Engineer

Chainguard

Staff Software Engineer responsible for backend systems ensuring production readiness at Chainguard. Securing the open source supply chain and building crucial enterprise systems.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $231,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

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

Gobackend engineeringdata validationdata pipelinescode reviewtestingincident responseobservabilityTerraformproduction systems

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationanalytical mindsetproblem-solvingcommunication