Software Engineer (Libraries Platform)

Chainguard
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 121,000 - 142,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Documentation","Collaboration","Ownership","Debugging"]

Join the Libraries Platform team to design and implement the infrastructure that powers Chainguard’s secure, reproducible build “factory.” You’ll build services, pipelines, and a package index for multiple ecosystems, automate artifact creation and verification (including vulnerability scanning, SBOM, and provenance), and develop tooling/CLIs to scale CI/CD. You’ll also drive reliability and incident improvements while collaborating with ecosystem, platform, delivery, sustaining, and security teams.

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Chainguard
Chainguard
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Software Engineer (Libraries Platform)

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Job Summary

Join the Libraries Platform team to design and implement the infrastructure that powers Chainguard’s secure, reproducible build “factory.” You’ll build services, pipelines, and a package index for multiple ecosystems, automate artifact creation and verification (including vulnerability scanning, SBOM, and provenance), and develop tooling/CLIs to scale CI/CD. You’ll also drive reliability and incident improvements while collaborating with ecosystem, platform, delivery, sustaining, and security teams.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead design and implementation of core Libraries Platform components: services, pipelines, and the package index for secure build, test, and distribution workflows across ecosystems.
  • •Design and maintain automation for artifact creation, updates, verification, including vulnerability scanning, remediation workflows, SBOM/provenance generation, and policy enforcement.
  • •Develop automation to generate security fixes (including AI-assisted patching) and provide testing/verification to trust results.
  • •Build and operate shared platform services (package indexes, registry mirrors, metadata services, orchestration tooling) for external customers and internal teams.
  • •Drive reliability, scalability, and observability (SLOs, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvements).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 121,000 - 142,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalEquityRemote WorkPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms (build systems, package registries, or CI/CD).
  • •Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or readiness to ramp quickly.
  • •Proven track record building and owning developer tooling and automation (plugins, CLIs, code generators, custom pipelines).
  • •Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native infrastructure, and IaC (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions/Argo/Tekton).
  • •Ability to debug and resolve complex toolchain, compiler, packaging, and infrastructure failures in production, driving issues to root cause.
Experience:5+ yearsOpen sourceDeveloper platformsLanguage ecosystemsCI/CDSRE/DevOps
Skills:CommunicationDocumentationCollaborationOwnershipDebugging
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoGolangJavaJavaScriptPythonAIMLCI/CDDockerOCIKubernetesGCPAWSAzureTerraformGitHub ActionsArgoTektonSBOMProvenance

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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