Senior Software Engineer, Customer Platform & APIs (Remote)

Chainguard; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity/stock options

Unlimited PTO

Remote work with flexible coworking

Home office and internet stipend

100% health/dental/vision insurance

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a backend Platform Engineer to design and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs. You will own features end-to-end, collaborating with Product and Experience teams to ship iterative improvements.

You will work with Go, microservices and cloud-native stacks, contributing to a shared platform across Chainguard products. This remote-friendly role emphasizes strong collaboration and open-source contributions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Proficiency with Go and building production services.
• Experience designing, implementing and evolving public APIs.
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong collaboration with product, design and frontend 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 drive clear design plans.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with clear outcomes and timely delivery.

Skills

Go

Microservices

Cloud-native architectures

API design

Versioning & backwards compatibility

Open-source contributions

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Job description

Chainguard is seeking a backend Platform Engineer to design and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs. You will own features end-to-end, collaborating with Product and Experience teams to ship iterative improvements.

You will work with Go, microservices and cloud-native stacks, contributing to a shared platform across Chainguard products. This remote-friendly role emphasizes strong collaboration and open-source contributions.