Senior Software Engineer, Containers
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ChainguardContainer security
Remote. United States preferred; Open to Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryBase Salary Range $157,000 — $184,000 USD
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Job Details
- Languages
- Excellent written English
- Experience
- 3+ years building and operating software that paying customers use
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPKubernetesGoCoaching
Requirements
- Have 3+ years of experience building and operating software used by paying customers.
- Bring strong fundamentals in a systems language; Go is preferred.
- Have experience with API design, databases and caching, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
- Have working knowledge of containers, container registries, the OCI image format, and Kubernetes.
- Use agentic coding tools daily and be able to show how they have changed your output.
- Demonstrate judgment in making trade-offs and adapting decisions when data changes.
- Be able to reason across systems such as build pipelines, registries, and customer clusters.
- Be comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems and pivoting as priorities shift.
- Have excellent written English and experience working on a distributed, remote-first team.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship Chainguard Containers features and services from a one-page design through production and the first week of customer use.
- Own scope, sequencing, and trade-offs for assigned work, and communicate clearly when a plan is at risk.
- Use AI coding agents to build, review, and operate software, and help improve their safe use on the team.
- Investigate problems across other teams' services, customer calls, support tickets, and go-to-market data.
- Maintain the health of systems through observability, on-call work, and fixes that prevent recurring incidents.
- Write design notes, pull request descriptions, and status updates for a distributed team.
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