Principal Software Engineer – Libraries Platform

Chainguard

Principal engineer setting architecture and automating CVE remediation for Chainguard’s secure open-source library platform. Scaling support across .NET, Go, Rust, and other ecosystems.

Posted 8/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $229,000 - $258,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in designing and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native technologies. Capable of leading technical direction across multiple teams while mentoring engineers and driving strategic decisions.

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Infrastructure DesignCI/CD AutomationTechnical DirectionGo ProgrammingCloud-Native Infrastructure

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Hard Skills

.NETGoRustCI/CDInfrastructure As CodeToolchain DiagnosisAutomated RemediationPackage IndexingBuild PipelinesIncident Response

Soft Skills

Written CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

DockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsArgoTekton

Industry Keywords

Language EcosystemsEcosystem GeneralizationSLSASBOMsSecure Packaging

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerGoKubernetesLinux.NETPyTorchRustTensorflowTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical strategy for scaling across multiple language ecosystems, including .NET, Go, and Rust
Drive end-to-end CVE remediation automation from detection through verified release
Set direction for agentic/AI-driven patch generation and safety guardrails
Set platform-wide technical direction across package indexing, build and packaging pipelines, registry mirrors, and orchestration tooling
Make build-versus-buy and sequencing decisions for onboarding new ecosystems
Partner with Ecosystem, Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security teams on the platform roadmap
Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and lead architectural design reviews
Write documentation and RFCs to guide other teams
Define SLOs and lead incident response and postmortems
Investigate toolchain, compiler, and dependency-resolution issues affecting pipeline reliability

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms
Demonstrated Principal-level scope setting technical direction across multiple teams
Direct experience standing up or significantly extending support for a language ecosystem
Ideally experience with .NET/NuGet, Go/modules, or Rust/Cargo
Strong proficiency in Go
Track record of automating manual remediation workflows reliably
Deep experience with CI/CD, agentic pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and infrastructure as code
Experience with Docker/OCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and pipeline tooling such as GitHub Actions, Argo, Tekton, or equivalents
Experience running infrastructure at scale across heterogeneous ecosystems
Ability to diagnose and resolve toolchain, compiler, and packaging failures across multiple ecosystems
Excellent written communication in a remote, distributed environment
Principal ownership mindset and ability to make ecosystem-generalization decisions with incomplete information
Nice-to-have: SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, provenance, attestations, secure-by-default packaging
Nice-to-have: Linux distributions, packaging, and reproducible build systems including Alpine, Wolfi, Debian, Bazel, CMake, or Ninja
Nice-to-have: AI/ML packaging and infrastructure, including PyTorch and TensorFlow, in cloud/Kubernetes environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible & Remote-First Culture
Team meetup opportunities
Bi-annual destination summits
Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
Stock options upon hire and promotion
Participation in secondary offerings
10 years to exercise stock options
100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
Flexible time off
18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents