Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

4+ years of experience building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.

Experience with CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and the tooling required to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release.

A strong AI-forward mindset; ability to connect your past technical experience with modern, AI-driven development practices (e.g., LLM-based automation, context engineering).

A genuine fit with a high-paced, “ship it” culture: self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and focused on data-driven improvements to product delivery.

If you’re using AI to help with your application, include the phrase “bonfires are my jam” naturally within your experience

Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable build/workflow systems.

This team builds the “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering.

This is a high-impact role on a team whose mission is to eliminate developer toil and shorten the path from a CVE being issued to a hardened artifact landing in our customers' hands.

The team owns the internal platform end-to-end.

This includes our CI/CD, our Agentic AI platform (DriftlessAF), shared build infrastructure, and the foundation for how changes get validated, reviewed, and landed.

AI agents are reshaping how change reaches production, and a key focus this year is scaling that substrate well beyond what traditional PR-based workflows can support, while keeping safety and review quality high.

You will work alongside the team to solve these challenges, contributing to technical direction and partnering with engineering leaders across the org to drive DORA-aligned outcomes and deliver a standardized paved road for new and existing products to ship on.