chainguard
Staff Software Engineer (Sustaining Automation)
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- 2026-03-13T11:26:47-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Certifications
- SAFe
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
- Insurance
- Medical
- Regulatory
- Supply Chain
Benefits & Perks
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Requirements
8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and building complex systems
Strong Go expertise
Experience with AI/LLM integration: building systems that use language models for code generation, automation, or developer tooling. Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails
Systems architecture skills: ability to design loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs
Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms
Deep Linux and build systems knowledge: experience with package managers (apk, apt, rpm), build tools (Make, Bazel, language-specific toolchains), and containerization
Responsibilities
Chainguard delivers the industry's most secure container images: minimal, zero-CVE, rebuilt daily from source. We're building a new team focused on automation and tooling to accelerate how we deliver images at scale.
As a Staff Engineer, you'll be the technical leader for this greenfield effort. You'll design systems, build AI-powered tooling, and shape the future of our fulfillment platform. You'll work closely with a small team of engineers, guiding technical decisions and raising the bar for engineering quality.
This is a high-impact role at the intersection of developer tooling, AI/agents, and supply chain security.
Architect the automation platform:
Design the end-to-end system that orchestrates package creation, test generation, and image building. Own the technical vision and make decisions that will scale.
About the Company
At Chainguard, we are on a mission to secure the software supply chain by default. Our team is founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development.
Chainguard's product portfolio includes Chainguard Images and Chainguard Services. Customers range from Fortune 500 companies in banking, fintech, government and infrastructure to startups and SMBs. Join us as we help organizations secure their software supply chain from source to production.