[Remote] Staff Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure builds of open source software. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to take long-term ownership of significant domains within their clearing house and drive the architecture and implementation of backend systems in Go on GCP.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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

• 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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