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Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Chainguard
18 days ago
Full-time
Remote
Worldwide
Remote Engineering

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. 

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Location: Remote - N. America or UK

The role, in a nutshell

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Customer Platform team, which owns the customer-facing platform capabilities that power Chainguard’s products including our notification system, authentication, and the next generation of our public APIs.

This is a highly impactful, highly visible role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment. You’ll design and build backend services and APIs that are consumed across multiple product lines, partnering closely with Product and the Experience team to ship features that customers rely on every day.

We’re looking for someone who wants to move quickly, cares deeply about quality and reliability, and is energized by working across products rather than owning a single narrow service.

What you’ll do

  • 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.”
  • Extend Chainguard’s agentic AI foundation into product experiences, delivering AI powered customer facing features and curated experiences across all of Chainguard's Products.

What we’re looking for

  • Strong backend engineering experience 8+ 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 API