Principal Software Engineer

Chainguard

Remote regions

Global

Benefits

Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Set the technical direction for the Athena clearing house by making hard architectural calls on data validation pipelines, customer entitlement systems, and workflow orchestration.
  • Scale the team and product area, defining and driving the transition from rapid prototyping to a sustainable, production-grade product stack.
  • Partner with staff engineers to establish domain ownership and technical standards across the team.

What We're Looking For:

  • A track record of setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems, raising the entire team's ceiling.
  • Deep fluency in Go and experience with GCP and Terraform is a must; polyglot engineers who can pick up new stacks quickly are welcome.
  • Ability to work with messy, unstructured data validating, deduplicating, and extracting signal from real-world enterprise inputs.
  • Experience transitioning teams from fast-moving prototypes to maintainable systems with monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and on-call.

Benefits We Offer:

  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child's first year.

Chainguard

Chainguard secures the open source software supply chain, delivering hardened, production-ready builds of open source software. They are venture-backed by leading investors and serve Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.

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