StaffSoftwareEngineer(GuardedContainers)

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. The role, in a nutshell: The successful candidate will be part of our Containers team, whose mission is to develop new features for our customers, build and improve tooling and infrastructure, and maintain product quality standards for our core product – Chainguard Images. As a Staff Engineer, you'll own critical, technically complex areas of our stack, shape long-term technical direction, and drive outcomes that extend beyond your immediate team. You'll collaborate closely with team members, guide technical decisions, and promote a culture of excellence. What you’ll do: Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional teams to design innovative services and features that enhance the core product, making it more compelling and valuable. Develop robust tools and services to continue to improve our image build system as it scales. Own high-impact, deeply technical components of the Chainguard stack, serving as the subject matter expert in those areas Participate in long-term planning and roadmap discussions, helping identify the key problems the team needs to solve and ensuring they get solved Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization What we're looking for: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience 10+ years of experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, compilers, Makefiles, and toolchains E