Staff Software Engineer, Customer Platform

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the Customer Platform backend end-to-end. You’ll design, implement, and ship features that connect customers and partners to Chainguard's secure software supply chain.

You’ll lead senior engineers, mentor teammates, and collaborate with product management and other engineering teams to deliver a robust, scalable platform with clear outcomes and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services in Go.
• Strong knowledge of REST or gRPC APIs.
• Experience leading engineers and mentoring.
• Experience with scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end from design to rollout.
• Design and evolve backend services powering entitlement and onboarding.
• Collaborate with product and other teams to align roadmap.
• Provide technical leadership and help break down ambiguity.

Skills

Go

REST/gRPC

Backend design

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
Remote: US, UK, Canada
The role, in a nutshell:
Chainguard secures the software supply chain and Customer Platform is how every customer, partner, and internal product line actually connects to it. This team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable everything else. It's the first thing a customer touches and the integration layer every internal team depends on. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who owns hard problems end to end, moves without hand-holding, and can be the technical anchor for a team that touches every corner of the company.

What you'll do

Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the partner Chainguard teams.
Design, build, and evolve the backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) that power Chainguard's entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services
Serve as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other Chainguard engineering teams (Containers, Libraries, OS packages) by understanding their requirements and building integration paths
Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers; help the team break down ambiguity and build toward clear outcomes
Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for \