About the role

Role Overview

Join Chainguard as a Staff Software Engineer on the Libraries Platform team. You will lead the architecture and implementation of the platform that powers the library factory, focusing on infrastructure, shared services, build/packaging pipelines, and a package index for external and internal users.

Key Missions

Design and implement the Libraries Platform, including shared services, pipelines, and the package index.
Build and maintain automation for creating, updating, and verifying artifacts, including vulnerability analysis.
Operate shared platform services such as package indexes, registry mirrors, and metadata services.
Develop internal developer tools and contribute to reliability, scalability, and performance of critical services and pipelines.
Partner with ecosystem teams to drive adoption and improve the developer experience.

Responsibilities

Lead platform architecture and implementation for infrastructure-centric services.
Own critical outcomes for developer tooling, automation, and pipeline reliability.
Work across SRE/platform/DevOps-style areas: reliability, observability, performance tuning.
Contribute to ecosystem tooling and open-source packaging infrastructure.

Requirements

3+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms (e.g., build systems, package registries, CI/CD).
Strong background in CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure, including IaC.
Experience with containers (Docker/OCI) and Kubernetes.
Public cloud experience: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
IaC and CI tooling such as Terraform and GitHub Actions/Argo/Tekton (or equivalents).
Proficiency in Go (Golang) (or strong readiness to ramp quickly).
Proven ability to build and own developer tooling and automation (plugins, CLIs, generators, custom pipelines).
Excellent communication for a remote/distributed environment, with strong documentation and collaboration.

Nice-to-haves

Experience with software supply chain security: SLSA, SBOMs, Sigstore, provenance, attestations, or secure-by-default packaging.
Background with Linux distributions, packaging, and reproducible builds (e.g., Alpine/Wolfi/Debian, Bazel, CMake, Ninja).
Familiarity with AI/ML packaging and infrastructure for Python libraries/frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) in cloud/Kubernetes.
Open-source contributions in ecosystem tooling, libraries, or packaging.

About Chainguard

Chainguard builds a secure and reliable platform for open-source libraries. The company focuses on infrastructure and tooling that improve how libraries are built, packaged, verified, and distributed for both external customers and internal ecosystem teams.

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