Senior Software Engineer (Delivery)

The Role, In a Nutshell

The successful candidate will be part of our image delivery team. You'll spearhead the development of Wolfi (Linux) Packages and Chainguard container images. You'll mentor team members, guide technical decisions, promote a culture of excellence, and uphold our commitment to high-quality standards in the creation of container images.

What You’ll Do

• Package Building: Develop melange packages within Wolfi and private repositories, adhering to technical specifications and integration requirements.
• Image Creation: Produce Chainguard container images for both public and private use, balancing the need for speed with uncompromised quality.
• Quality Assurance: Create comprehensive automated tests. Consistently raising the bar for what high quality means.
• Backlog Management: Efficiently work through a prioritized queue of image requests, ensuring each is processed according to project timelines and quality expectations.
• Mentorship: Provide code reviews, technical support and guidance to other members of the team.

What We're Looking For

• At least 4 years of relevant technical experience
• Strong experience working with Linux, including packaging (such as APK, RPM)
• Extensive experience building and debugging container images
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform
• Strong programming experience in Go lang and at least one other language
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, able to work independently
• Some experience with AI/LLM integration and familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Passionate about quality and attention to detail

_This role does not involve managing cloud infrastructure; however, we utilize DevOps tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm to support image building and testing.

_Nice To Haves

• Actively involved in the open-source community
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation

Explore Our Work

Dive into the practical side of what we do at Chainguard. These resources provide a hands-on look at our processes and offer an opportunity for in-depth understanding of our product offerings and the technology behind them.

• Building Multiarch Container Images with Chainguard Images
• Chainguard Academy
• https://www.chainguard.dev

Base Salary Range

$157,000—$184,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We Live And Breathe Our Company Values

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A Few Of The Benefits We Offer

• 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.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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