Senior Backend Engineer, Customer Platform (Go, Remote)

Chainguard; United States; Remote; USD 157,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First culture

Stock options & equity

Health, dental & vision insurance

Generous parental leave

Monthly coworking stipend

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team and own customer-facing backend services and public APIs. You’ll design and build scalable systems powering Chainguard’s products, collaborating with Product and the Experience team to deliver reliable features for customers.

You’ll work in a remote-friendly environment from the United States, Canada, or the UK, emphasize quality and reliability, and ship features that customers depend on every day.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production backend services.
• Proficiency in Go and building scalable HTTP APIs.
• Experience designing external and internal APIs with versioning and auth.
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures including Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and APIs.
• Own features end-to-end from design to rollout in collaboration with Product and front-end teams.
• Create technical design documents and drive clear implementation plans.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with deadline-driven priorities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Public APIs

Microservices

Cloud / Kubernetes

Communication

Job description

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team and own customer-facing backend services and public APIs. You’ll design and build scalable systems powering Chainguard’s products, collaborating with Product and the Experience team to deliver reliable features for customers.

You’ll work in a remote-friendly environment from the United States, Canada, or the UK, emphasize quality and reliability, and ship features that customers depend on every day.