Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Chainguard
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 157,000 - 184,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Self-direction","Ambition"]

Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services and public APIs powering Chainguard’s customer platform. You’ll own features end-to-end across multiple product lines, collaborate with Product and Experience teams, design technical plans, and help ship reliable, scalable platform capabilities in a cloud-native, microservices environment.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Chainguard
Chainguard
3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 4 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services and public APIs powering Chainguard’s customer platform. You’ll own features end-to-end across multiple product lines, collaborate with Product and Experience teams, design technical plans, and help ship reliable, scalable platform capabilities in a cloud-native, microservices environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs that work well for all Chainguard products and customer segments
  • •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
  • •Collaborate with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines to ship across products

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 157,000 - 184,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceEquityPar ParentalParential Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
  • •Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly — we write everything in Go and expect you to get there fast
  • •Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services
  • •Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient in production
  • •Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
Experience:5+ yearsOpen sourceCloud
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingSelf-directionAmbition
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoKubernetesDockerCloudAPIsMicroservices

Company Brief

Chainguard
Builds software supply chain security solutions for containerized and Kubernetes-native environments, offering tools for secure builds, attestations, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement to help organizations deploy trustworthy software at scale.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2020
WebsiteLinkedIn