Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, and ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them.
• - Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team.
• - Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for ''perfect.''

Required Skills

• - Strong backend engineering experience
• - 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
• - Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
• - Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services.
• - Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient in production.
• - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines.
• - Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment: A genuine interest in a high-paced, high-intensity, ''ship it'' culture where you’re self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and working with people who will challenge you to grow as a developer.

Benefits

• - 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.
• - Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• - 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• - ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• - 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child''s first year.