Staff Software Engineer (Guarded Containers)
Core
Designing innovative services and features for Chainguard Images, a hardened, secure, production-ready open source container build platform.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Containers & Tooling)
Builds
Chainguard Images (hardened container builds) and internal tooling for the image build system
Domain
Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure / Containerization
Required skills
Containers, container registries, Docker, Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, compilers, toolchains, data structures, algorithms
Preferred skills
Open-source contributions
Technologies
Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Responsibilities
Design innovative services and features to enhance the core product; Develop robust tools to improve the image build system as it scales; Own high-impact, deeply technical components of the stack; Participate in long-term planning and roadmap discussions; Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality standards
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
