Chainguard

Staff Software Engineer, Sustaining Automation

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “United States - Remote; Remote - US”
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About this role

Chainguard is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer, Sustaining Automation role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and building complex systems
  • Strong Go expertise
  • Experience with AI/LLM integration: building systems that use language models for code generation, automation, or developer tooling; some exposure to agentic workflows is a strong plus
  • Systems architecture skills: ability to design loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs
  • Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms
  • Deep Linux and build systems knowledge: experience with package managers (apk, apt, rpm), build tools (Make, Bazel, language-specific toolchains), and containerization
  • Container ecosystem expertise: Docker, OCI, container registries, Kubernetes
  • Demonstrated ability to help shape team direction: comfortable influencing roadmap and priorities, not just implementing them

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.