Staff Software Engineer, Libraries

Chainguard

full-time

Posted on: 10/9/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $170,000 - $213,000 per year

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About the role

Design, build, and maintain AI/ML package infrastructure, including building, testing, and distributing ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, etc.) in reproducible and secure ways
Develop and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns to support reproducible deployment of ML services and pipelines.
Contribute to automation pipelines for building and verifying AI/ML packages (Python wheels, containers, etc.).
Assist with troubleshooting toolchain-related build failures.
Implement and maintain observability, CI/CD, and policy enforcement systems for AI/ML workloads and infrastructure.
Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies in the AI/ML ecosystem with secure-by-default packaging and reproducibility principles.

Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
Experience in Python packaging, including building and distributing wheels and dependencies.
Background in compilers, toolchains, and native build systems.
Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX) and their build/deployment ecosystems.
Familiarity with software supply chain security best practices (SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, etc.)
Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Tekton, or similar).
Working knowledge of Linux packaging and reproducible build systems (Alpine, Wolfi, Nix, Bazel, etc.) is a plus.

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.
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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Python packagingTerraformKubernetesAI/ML frameworksCI/CDautomation pipelinesobservabilityinfrastructure-as-codeLinux packagingbuild systems