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About this role

Chainguard is hiring for a Principal Software Engineer, Containers role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

10+ years building and operating software that paying customers use, including several years as the technical lead of large, multi-team projects at a startup or a company in hyper-growth.
Closely relevant experience in what we do: container images, container registries and the OCI image format (Open Container Initiative, the standard for container images and registries), Linux distributions or package ma…
Known in the field. Your work is visible outside your employer: open source you maintain, standards you helped shape, talks or writing that other engineers cite, or systems the industry knows you built.
A track record of technical leadership without authority: you have set direction for a team you did not manage, and the team delivered.
Experience forming and executing roadmaps with engineering and product leaders, including saying no, re-sequencing, and holding a date.
Judgment on trade-offs at the product level. You have made calls that moved a company's roadmap, and you can show what you gave up and why.
A systems thinker who designs for the whole path, from upstream source through build, signing, distribution, and the customer's runtime, and who sees second-order effects before they land.
High agency and urgency. You find a way, you do not wait to be unblocked, and you unblock others.

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