Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source software, helping organizations build faster and eliminate risk. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform team, focusing on customer-facing capabilities and backend services that power their products. The role involves designing and building APIs, owning features end-to-end, and collaborating closely with Product Management and the Experience team.

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
• Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence
• 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.'

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 — we write everything in Go and expect you to get there fast
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services. You can talk about topics like versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experience
• 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
• Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiences
• Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with tools in the broader CNCF space
• Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects

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.

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