Staff Software Engineer (Repositories)

About the Role:

• If you’re excited by the idea of building the trusted front door to secure open source software, this role is for you.
• Chainguard’s Repository team owns the customer-facing infrastructure that serves libraries today and is laying the foundation for a unified repository experience.

What You'll Do:

• Own the technical direction for key parts of Chainguard Repository, including customer-facing registries, APIs, and serving systems.
• Design, build, and operate high-availability backend services in Go.
• Lead work on scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing for production systems.

What We're Looking For:

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
• Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp quickly in Go.
• Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, or APIs.