Remote Go Backend Engineer for Secure Open Source Infra

Chainguard; United States; Remote; CAD 242,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Stock options

100% Covered Health Insurance

Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Chainguard is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate the Repository team’s core systems, including package registries, APIs, and production services that securely serve artifacts to customers at scale.

This is an infrastructure-heavy backend role focused on Go services, reliability, and performance, with opportunities to own well-defined projects and influence architectural decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software development experience on backend or infrastructure systems.
• Go experience or ability to learn Go quickly.
• Experience contributing to software projects from implementation through testing and release.
• Interest in customer-facing infrastructure such as registries, APIs, developer platforms, or other backend systems.
• Familiarity with testing, code review, debugging, and version control.
• Exposure to deploying or operating services in production, or a strong interest in developing those skills.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is helpful.
• A systems-oriented mindset and curiosity: you like understanding how things work, investigating problems, and improving your solutions over time.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills, including in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems that make Chainguard software easy to consume securely and reliably.
• Implement well-scoped projects and features from technical design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration, with support from more experienced engineers.
• Develop and operate backend services in Go that serve Libraries today and help establish the foundation for containers, images, APKs, and other artifact types over time.
• Contribute to work involving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing for production systems.
• Participate in design discussions and help make thoughtful decisions about service boundaries, APIs, data flows, and operational patterns.
• Work with engineers and product partners across Chainguard to solve problems and deliver a cohesive repository experience.
• Review code, ask questions, share what you learn, and contribute to a supportive engineering team.
• Help investigate and resolve production issues, building your operational judgment and understanding of how customer-facing systems run in practice.

Skills

Go

Backend development

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Remote collaboration

Production deployment

Code review

Debugging

Job description

Chainguard is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate the Repository team’s core systems, including package registries, APIs, and production services that securely serve artifacts to customers at scale.

This is an infrastructure-heavy backend role focused on Go services, reliability, and performance, with opportunities to own well-defined projects and influence architectural decisions in a fast-moving environment.