Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Chainguard
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 157,000 - 184,000Function: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Self-directed","Comfortable with ambiguity","Data-driven"]

Own core parts of the Developer Platform “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering, from CI/CD and shared build infrastructure to an agentic AI platform. Improve monorepo pipeline speed, reliability, and developer experience, and help productionize AI agent capabilities like observability and RAG. Consolidate fragmented build systems into standardized “paved road” blueprints, identify developer toil, and drive DORA-aligned outcomes through technical direction and reviews.

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Chainguard
Chainguard
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Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

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Job Summary

Own core parts of the Developer Platform “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering, from CI/CD and shared build infrastructure to an agentic AI platform. Improve monorepo pipeline speed, reliability, and developer experience, and help productionize AI agent capabilities like observability and RAG. Consolidate fragmented build systems into standardized “paved road” blueprints, identify developer toil, and drive DORA-aligned outcomes through technical direction and reviews.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate on key Developer Platform areas and contribute to technical implementation.
  • •Improve monorepo CI/CD pipeline speed, reliability, and developer experience to reduce build wait time and debugging.
  • •Productionize the agentic AI platform, including agent observability and RAG/context-engineering patterns for reliability from dev through prod.
  • •Consolidate fragmented build systems and deliver standardized “paved road” blueprints for faster onboarding and production shipping.
  • •Identify developer toil, codify repeatable patterns, automate manual work, and participate in design and code reviews to raise engineering velocity and operational excellence.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 157,000 - 184,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceVisionDentalEquityFlexible TimeParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
  • •Proficiency with Go (Golang) or readiness to ramp quickly.
  • •Experience with CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and scaling a large monorepo across build, test, and release.
  • •AI-forward mindset, with ability to connect past experience to AI-driven development practices like LLM-based automation and context engineering.
  • •Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with engineers across the company to identify and automate repetitive manual tasks.
Experience:4+ yearsOpen sourceAI agentsDeveloper experienceCloud infrastructurePlatform engineering
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationSelf-directedComfortable with ambiguityData-driven
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoGolangCI/CDMonorepoAgentic AIDriftlessAFRAGLLM-based automationContext engineeringGitHub ActionsArgo WorkflowsBuildkiteDORASPACEGitHubOCIKubernetes

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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