Senior Software Engineer, Chainguard

• Strong backend engineering experience, with 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
• Proficiency with Go or strong readiness to ramp up quickly; the team writes everything in Go and expects you to learn it quickly
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services, including real-world experience with versioning, backwards compatibility, authentication, and usability
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and with building observable and resilient production services
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
• Proven ability to thrive in a remote startup environment, working independently, handling ambiguity, and adapting to a fast-paced, high-intensity culture

Desirable

• Join the Platform team, which owns customer-facing platform capabilities powering Chainguard’s products, including its notification system, authentication, and next-generation public APIs. Design and build backend services and APIs used across multiple product lines, partnering closely with Product and the Experience team to ship features customers rely on
• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, and ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them
• Own features end-to-end, from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team
• Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for “perfect.”