Senior Software Engineer, Containers
Core
Design and ship features, services, and build systems for Chainguard Containers, including hardened container images, registries, and adoption tooling for engineers and AI agents.
Role type
Senior IC product engineer (container infrastructure)
Builds
Hardened container images, registry services, build pipelines, and AI agent tooling (MCP servers)
Domain
Cloud infrastructure + container security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go, API design, databases, caching, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), containers, OCI format, Kubernetes, AI coding agents
Preferred skills
Software supply chain security (SBOM, Sigstore, SLSA), Terraform, open-source contributions
Technologies
Go, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, OCI, Sigstore, Wolfi, apko, melange, Terraform
Responsibilities
Design and ship new features from concept to production, own trade-offs on scope and sequencing, work with AI coding agents, maintain system health and observability, write clear documentation and design notes
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
