Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team, the team that builds the "Factory" powering Chainguard Engineering. We own the internal infrastructure, automation, and AI tooling that lets our engineers ship secure software at scale.

• Take ownership of significant pieces of the Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, the Agentic AI platform (DriftlessAF), shared build infrastructure, or the change-throughput substrate.
• Improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience of the monorepo CI/CD pipeline.
• Contribute to the next generation of change throughput, exploring substrates beyond PR-based workflows for agent-driven changes.
• Help productionize the Agentic AI platform, focusing on agent observability and context-engineering patterns.
• Work with the team to consolidate fragmented build systems and deliver standardized "paved road" blueprints.
• Partner directly with engineers across the company to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate repetitive manual work.
• Mentor teammates, raise the bar on design and code review, and serve as a technical voice for engineering velocity and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
• Proficiency with Go, or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
• Deep technical expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and the tooling required to scale a large monorepo.
• Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI and LLM-based automation in production.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a focus on data-driven improvements to product delivery.

Requirements

• Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable systems at high throughput.
• Experience scaling change-throughput beyond traditional PR workflows.
• Background in developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE) and building the instrumentation to measure and improve them.
• Experience operating a large Go monorepo and the tooling around it.
• Familiarity with the supply chain security space, container ecosystems (OCI, Kubernetes), or open source software communities.
• Experience publishing internal-platform OKRs and running stakeholder feedback loops.

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion, with 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.