Senior Software Engineer

Chainguard

Senior Software Engineer building secure software supply chain for Chainguard. Responsible for core components in Go on GCP including customer onboarding and data ingestion.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
Take on ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability
Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale
Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs
Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems
Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon
Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering bar
Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid backend engineering foundation you've shipped and maintained production systems
Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
You can navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation
Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plus
Security or infrastructure domain knowledge

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 ingestionunstructured data handlinginfrastructure-as-codeoperational toolingmonitoringalertingvalidationdeduplication

Soft Skills

ownershipproblem-solvinganalytical approachindependenceteam collaborationfeedbackleadership