Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)

Chainguard; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Remote work

Home office stipend

Health insurance

Job summary

Chainguard seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team in New York with remote-friendly options. You will design and build backend services and public APIs used across Chainguard products, partnering with Product and Experience teams to deliver reliable features customers rely on daily.

You’ll own features end-to-end—from design through rollout—drive technical designs, and contribute to a roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
• Proficiency with Go (Golang) or readiness to ramp quickly.
• Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures (containers, Kubernetes).
• Experience designing public APIs used across multiple products or services.
• Strong communication and collaboration with PMs, designers, and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services and APIs consumed across product lines.
• Own features end-to-end from design through rollout and iteration.
• Create technical design documents and drive design plans with clarity.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with clear outcomes and deadlines.

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Microservices

Kubernetes

APIs design

Cloud environments

Tools

Git

Job description

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team, which owns the customer-facing platform capabilities that power Chainguard’s products, including our notification system, authentication, and the next generation of our public APIs
• This is a highly impactful, highly visible role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
• You’ll design and build backend services and APIs that are consumed across multiple product lines, partnering closely with Product and the Experience team to ship features that customers rely on every day
• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, and ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team
• Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for “perfect.”

Benefits

• Equity/stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
• Home office and internet stipend
• 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family

We’re looking for someone who wants to move quickly, cares deeply about quality and reliability, and is energized by working across products rather than owning a single narrow serviceProficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly — we write everything in Go and expect you to get there fastStrong backend engineering experience 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environmentFamiliarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and how to build services that are observable and resilient in productionExperience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs that are consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services. You can talk about topics like versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experienceExcellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product linesProven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment: A genuine interest in a high-paced, high-intensity, “ship it” culture where you’re self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and working with people who will challenge you to grow as a developerPrior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiencesExperience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with tools in the broader CNCF spaceMeaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects