Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform & AI Tooling

Chainguard; United States; Remote; USD 205,000 - 231,000; 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 a leader in open source security, seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Platform. You’ll own substantial portions of our internal infrastructure, including monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform, and shared build tooling, partnering with engineering leaders to raise velocity and reliability.

This role emphasizes scalable, secure production systems, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production services and platform infrastructure.
• Experience with Go and cloud-native stacks.
• Experience scaling monorepos and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling and agent automation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own pieces of the Developer Platform across CI/CD and build infra.
• Draft architectural design documents for customer needs.
• Improve monorepo CI/CD speed and reliability.
• Enable automated validation and auto-merge for low-risk changes.
• Mentor teammates and raise the bar on code reviews.

Skills

Go (Golang)

CI/CD systems

Container orchestration

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo Workflows

Buildkite

Job description

Chainguard is a leader in open source security, seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Platform. You’ll own substantial portions of our internal infrastructure, including monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform, and shared build tooling, partnering with engineering leaders to raise velocity and reliability.

This role emphasizes scalable, secure production systems, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring.