Go Engineer - Libraries Platform (Remote)

Chainguard; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Equity options and long-term vesting

100% Health insurance coverage

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Libraries Platform team. You’ll help design and implement the platform that powers secure, reproducible builds and automated CVE remediation across Java, JavaScript, Python/AI/ML ecosystems.

This infrastructure‑centric role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and observability, with opportunities to mentor peers, work across ecosystem teams, and contribute to developer tooling (often in Go) that improves how we build, test, and ship

Qualifications

• 3–5 years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or willingness to ramp quickly.
• Proven track record building developer tooling and automation that improve how engineers build and ship software at scale.
• Strong background in CI/CD, cloud‑native infrastructure, and IaC: containers (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes), public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure), and tools like Terraform and GitHub Actions/Argo/Tekton.
• Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve complex toolchain, compiler, packaging, and infrastructure failures in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core components of the Libraries Platform including the services, pipelines, and package index that power secure, reproducible build, test, and distribution workflows for libraries across multiple ecosystems (Java, JavaScript, Python/AI/ML).
• Design and maintain automation for artifact creation, updates, and verification, including vulnerability scanning, remediation workflows, SBOM and provenance generation, and policy enforcement across our library catalog.
• Build toward novel patch generation. Develop and validate automation that generates security fixes — including AI-assisted patching — rather than only applying upstream patches, with the testing and verification needed to trust the result.
• Build and operate shared platform services such as package indexes, registry mirrors, metadata services, and orchestration tooling that serve both external customers and internal ecosystem teams.
• Develop internal developer tools and CLIs (often in Go) that improve how we build, test, and ship libraries at scale, including integration with build systems and CI/CD for multiple ecosystems.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and observability for the Libraries platform: define SLOs, build monitoring and alerting, and lead incident response and post‑incident improvements.
• Solve complex dependency and build issues in production environments, from toolchain and compiler problems to CI/CD flakiness and registry/package index edge cases.
• Partner closely with ecosystem teams (Java, JavaScript, Python/AI/ML), Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security to ensure the platform meets reliability, security, and product requirements.
• Mentor and unblock other engineers through design reviews, documentation, and hands‑on debugging, helping to “code culture” into how we build and run our libraries platform.

Skills

Go (Golang)

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems design

AI/ML workflow integration

Communication in remote teams

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Argo

Tekton

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Chainguard is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Libraries Platform team. You’ll help design and implement the platform that powers secure, reproducible builds and automated CVE remediation across Java, JavaScript, Python/AI/ML ecosystems.

This infrastructure‑centric role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and observability, with opportunities to mentor peers, work across ecosystem teams, and contribute to developer tooling (often in Go) that improves how we build, test, and ship