About
Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, production-ready builds of open source software used by engineers and AI agents, helping organizations build faster, stay compliant, and reduce risk.
Responsibilities
•Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for different products and customer segments
•Own features end to end, from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in partnership with Product Management and the Experience team
•Create technical design documents and drive design plans
•Contribute to a product-driven roadmap, help prioritize tradeoffs, and ship iteratively
Requirements
•5+ Years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
•Proficiency in Go or readiness to ramp up quickly
•Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs used internally and externally across multiple products or services, including versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, and usability
•Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, containers, and Kubernetes
•Ability to build observable and resilient production services
•Strong communication and collaboration skills with product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
•Ability to thrive in a fast-paced remote startup environment, work independently, handle ambiguity, and adapt to an intense shipping culture
Nice to have
•Experience building platform or shared services across multiple products or customer experiences
•Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem or broader CNCF space
•Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor
Conditions
•Remote-first culture with team meetups, biannual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs
•Stock options upon hire and promotion; access to secondary offerings; 10 years to exercise options
•100% Coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents
•Flexible time off
•18 Weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable at once or throughout the child's first year
