Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard
$144-200k
+ Stock options
More information about location
Software supply chain security company
Be an early applicant
Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$144-200k
+ Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a talented and experienced SRE to join our team to develop and maintain cloud-based infrastructure
- Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem
- Experience supporting high availability distributed production systems
- Experience with database administration and support
- Treated infrastructure as code utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack
- Familiarity working in a public cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Software development skills in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Javascript, and/or Ruby
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent in related work experience
- Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
- Ability to learn about the supply chain security space
- Please note we have flexibility to hire this role at the Senior or Staff level based on experience
- If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
Desirable
- Experience scaling services in a performant and cost-effective manner
- Implemented incident management and disaster recovery playbooks
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity across multiple public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Operated a multi-tenant capable software defined network (SDN)
- Linux systems troubleshooting and debugging skills
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, API design, and software design patterns
- Interest in open source software projects and communities
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer, help us design, automate, and scale secure‑by‑default cloud infrastructure so uptime stays exciting and on‑call stays uneventful
- You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling robust infrastructure, including observability, metrics and alerting. You will also ensure our work is sustainable by promoting best practices around deployment, incident management and disaster recovery
- Practice continuous improvement, by iterating on how services are deployed, configured, monitored, and maintained on our platform
- Lead incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages and alerts
- Help develop an operational focus and act as thought leaders for the rest of engineering
- Maintain and optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost
- Analyze system metrics and identify opportunities for improvement in reliability and efficiency
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.
Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$140m
SERIES C
Total funding: $612m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(Head of Product & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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