Chainguard

3 days ago

Software Engineer (Libraries Platform)

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Last checked: 15 hours agoStatus: Live

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

Website LinkedIn

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Chainguard

3 days ago

Software Engineer (Libraries Platform)

✓ Verified Job

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

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 15 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

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

Industry: Cybersecurity

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Funding: Series C

Headquarters: Seattle, United States

Founded: 2020

Website LinkedIn