Staff Software Engineer (Developer Platform)

Chainguard

Remote regions

Global

Salary range

$205,000–$231,000/yr

Benefits

Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

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What you'll do:

  • Own significant pieces of the Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, Agentic AI platforms, and shared build infrastructure, while contributing to technical direction.
  • Improve CI/CD pipeline speed and reliability to enhance developer experience and reduce debugging time, enabling engineers to ship faster.
  • Contribute to next-generation change throughput by exploring substrates beyond PR workflows and supporting AI-assisted review and auto-merge for low-risk changes.

Productionizing the Agentic AI Platform:

  • Help productionize the Agentic AI platform with features like agent observability, RAG-as-platform, and context-engineering patterns for reliability from development to production.
  • Consolidate fragmented build systems to deliver standardized paved road blueprints, allowing new products to onboard quickly and ship to production.

Collaboration and Mentorship:

  • Partner with engineers across the company to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate repetitive manual work, treating internal teams as platform customers.
  • Mentor teammates, raise the bar on design and code review, and serve as a technical voice for engineering velocity and operational excellence.

Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source software, delivering hardened and secure production-ready builds to help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. The company is venture-backed and serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, with a culture that values being customer-obsessed, taking intentional action, and trusting each other.

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