Software Engineer

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 their library factory, building shared infrastructure services, build/packaging pipelines, and a package index for external customers and internal ecosystem teams.

Key Missions

• Design and implement the Libraries Platform, including shared services, pipelines, and the package index.
• Build and maintain automation for creation, updates, and verification of artifacts, including vulnerability analysis.
• Develop and operate shared platform services such as package indexes, registry mirrors, and metadata services.
• Contribute to platform design/implementation and create internal developer tools.
• Drive reliability and scalability, partnering closely with ecosystem teams.

Responsibilities (implied)

• Own technical direction and critical outcomes in a high-impact area.
• Work with SRE/platform/DevOps-style concerns (reliability, observability, performance tuning).
• Improve how engineers build and ship software at scale via automation and tooling.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) (or readiness to ramp quickly).
• Background in CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure and IaC.
• Experience with containers (Docker/OCI) and Kubernetes.
• Public cloud experience: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• IaC/tools such as Terraform and CI tooling like GitHub Actions, Argo, or Tekton (or equivalents).
• Strong communication skills in a remote, distributed environment; bias toward documentation and collaboration.
• Comfort across SRE/platform/DevOps responsibilities: reliability, observability, performance tuning.
• Track record owning developer tooling and automation (plugins, CLIs, code generators, custom pipelines).
• 3+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms (build systems, package registries, CI/CD for widely used libraries/services).

Nice to Have / Additional

• Familiarity with AI/ML packaging and infrastructure for Python ML libraries/frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) deployed on cloud/Kubernetes.
• Open source contributions related to ecosystem tooling/packaging (Java, JavaScript, Python/ML, or related infra).
• Supply chain security experience: SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, provenance/attestations, or secure-by-default packaging.
• Background with Linux distributions, packaging, and reproducible build systems (e.g., Alpine/Wolfi/Debian, Bazel, CMake/Ninja).