Principal Software Engineer setting technical direction for Chainguard’s hardened container images, registry, and adoption tooling. Leading multi - team delivery for a company securing open - source software.
About the role
- Staff Software Engineer owning Kubernetes infrastructure, release tooling, and observability for CircleCI’s self-hosted CI/CD platform. Improving installation, upgrades, and operations for regulated and air-gapped customers.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-natively as the default approach to engineering problems
- Own the platform strategy for tooling, test infrastructure, and release automation used to ship services into CircleCI Server
- Simplify and improve the installation experience for CircleCI Server
- Make upgrades safer and day-to-day operation easier through sensible defaults
- Own CircleCI Server’s Kubernetes foundation and supporting tooling and infrastructure
- Standardize observability on OpenTelemetry
- Build diagnostics to help operators and support engineers identify root causes quickly
- Partner with Support, Customer Engineering, and customers to identify recurring issues and resolve them at the source
- Partner with Product and Engineering Management to translate business goals into technical strategy
- Make architecture and technical tradeoff decisions aligned with business needs
- Mentor engineers and raise technical quality through reviews and design discussions
Requirements
- 8+ years building production backend and infrastructure systems
- Strong proficiency in Go
- Experience with API design, data modelling, distributed systems, and operational tooling
- Deep experience designing, deploying, and debugging production systems on Kubernetes
- Deep experience with Helm
- Experience with customer-operated environments, including air-gapped and restricted-network environments
- Experience building internal platforms, tools, frameworks, and systems
- Daily use of AI tools and ability to discuss their applications and limitations
- Experience making architecture decisions spanning multiple systems and teams
- Experience documenting technical reasoning and weighing business tradeoffs
- Technical leadership and mentoring experience
- Experience shipping on-premises or self-hosted software
- Experience with enterprise on-premises, self-hosted SaaS, or customer-installed distributed systems
Benefits
- Reasonable accommodation for job application, interview, essential job functions, and employment benefits and privileges
- Global, remote workforce
- Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer
- Human-only review of applications available on request
- Option to opt out of AI interview note-taking
- Interview note-taking opt-out does not affect candidacy
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