Remote Senior Backend Engineer, Customer Platform

Georgian; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First culture

Equity stock options

Health insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave (18 wks)

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team, building backend services and public APIs that power our products. You will collaborate with Product and Experience teams to ship reliable features used across multiple product lines, while maintaining high quality and fast iteration.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend experience, strong Go skills, and a track record designing scalable APIs in cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend production services and API experience.
• Proficiency in Go and building scalable public APIs.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native, microservices, and containers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across product and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs.
• Own features end-to-end from design to rollout and iteration.
• Create technical design documents and plans with clarity.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with clear outcomes.

Skills

Go (Golang)

API design

Backend engineering

Cloud-native

Microservices

Communication

Remote work

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team, building backend services and public APIs that power our products. You will collaborate with Product and Experience teams to ship reliable features used across multiple product lines, while maintaining high quality and fast iteration.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend experience, strong Go skills, and a track record designing scalable APIs in cloud-native environments.