Senior Software Engineer (Athena)
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ChainguardSoftware Security
Remote — US, Canada, UKFull-TimeSenior
Salary157,000 - 184,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- GCPGoRESTful APIsTerraform
Requirements
- Solid backend engineering foundation with experience shipping and maintaining production systems
- Strong Go engineering skills
- Experience with GCP
- Experience with Terraform
- Ability to navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
- Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation
- Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
- Experience with Agentic AI workflows
- Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems (plus)
- Security or infrastructure domain knowledge
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
- Take on ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability
- Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale
- Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs
- Design, implement, and operate reliable agentic workflows that automate complex, multi-step tasks across production systems
- Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems
- Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon
- Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering bar
- Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling
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