Senior Software Engineer (Athena)

Chainguard
United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 157,000 - 184,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Methodical problem-solving","Analytical thinking","Ownership","Cross-functional collaboration","Technical mentorship"]

Build and maintain core components of Athena’s clearing house, including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines. Own ambiguous problems end-to-end from design to production with testing and observability, and implement scalable architectural patterns. Develop backend systems for unstructured enterprise inputs and produce validated outputs, while designing reliable agentic workflows. Contribute to on-call, incident response, and elevate engineering quality through reviews and feedback.

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Senior Software Engineer (Athena)

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Job Summary

Build and maintain core components of Athena’s clearing house, including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines. Own ambiguous problems end-to-end from design to production with testing and observability, and implement scalable architectural patterns. Develop backend systems for unstructured enterprise inputs and produce validated outputs, while designing reliable agentic workflows. Contribute to on-call, incident response, and elevate engineering quality through reviews and feedback.
Location: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and maintain Athena clearing house components in Go on GCP, including onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
  • •Drive features/subsystems from design through production with testing and observability, taking ownership of ambiguous problems
  • •Implement scalable architectural patterns with staff and principal engineers
  • •Develop backend systems to process unstructured enterprise inputs and produce structured, validated outputs
  • •Design, implement, and operate reliable agentic workflows and participate in on-call/incident response

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 157,000 - 184,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalEquityRemote WorkPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid backend engineering foundation with production systems you’ve shipped and maintained
  • •Strong Go engineering skills, with experience using GCP and Terraform
  • •Ability to work methodically on unstructured data (parsing, validating, deduplicating)
  • •Experience in teams focused on operational excellence (monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation)
  • •Experience with agentic AI workflows
Experience:Open sourceEnterpriseAgentic AI
Skills:Methodical problem-solvingAnalytical thinkingOwnershipCross-functional collaborationTechnical mentorship
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoGCPTerraform

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
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