Staff Backend Engineer, Repositories (Go) - Remote

chainguard; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Stock options

Health insurance

Unlimited time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure builds and reliable artifact platforms. We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Repositories) to lead architecture and implementation of core systems like registries, APIs, and production services at high scale.

In this role, you will write Go services, operate customer-facing infrastructure, and push for reliability and performance across Chainguard Repository.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems with staff-level ownership.
• Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp quickly in Go.
• Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for key parts of Chainguard Repository, including customer-facing registries, APIs, and serving systems.
• Design, build, and operate high-availability backend services in Go that serve libraries today and lay foundations for containers and APK repositories.
• Lead work on scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing for production systems that customers depend on.
• Drive technical decisions around repository architecture, service boundaries, and operational patterns for artifact-serving infrastructure at scale.
• Partner with engineers to create a cohesive repository experience and support more artifact types.
• Mentor other engineers, raise the bar on design and code review, and help shape how the team works.

Skills

Golang

Staff-level leadership

Distributed systems

Production deployments

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Remote collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure builds and reliable artifact platforms. We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Repositories) to lead architecture and implementation of core systems like registries, APIs, and production services at high scale.

In this role, you will write Go services, operate customer-facing infrastructure, and push for reliability and performance across Chainguard Repository.