Senior Software Engineer, Containers

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About the role

  • Senior software engineer building Chainguard’s secure container images, registry, and developer tooling. Shipping customer-facing infrastructure for open-source software supply-chain security.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship features and services for Chainguard Containers from design through production and initial customer use
  • Own scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and delivery decisions
  • Work with AI coding agents in building, reviewing, and operating software
  • Investigate problems across services, customer calls, support tickets, and go-to-market data
  • Maintain system health through observability, on-call, and corrective fixes
  • Write design notes, pull request descriptions, and status updates
  • Build hardened container images, registry services, build systems, distribution capabilities, and adoption tooling
  • Collaborate directly with Product Managers, customers, and a small end-to-end project team

Requirements

  • 3+ years building and operating software used by paying customers
  • High agency and urgency
  • Judgment on trade-offs
  • Systems thinking across build pipelines, registries, and customer clusters
  • Daily use of agentic coding tools and ability to demonstrate their impact
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Strong fundamentals in a systems language, preferably Go
  • Experience with API design, databases and caching
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS
  • Working knowledge of containers, container registries, OCI image format, and Kubernetes
  • Excellent written English
  • Experience working on a distributed, remote-first team
  • No visa sponsorship or relocation provided
  • Resume must include the term "DiscoTech"

Benefits

  • Flexible and 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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$157,000 - $184,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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