Staff Software Engineer (Developer Platform)

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. The role, in a nutshell: We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. This team builds the “Factory” that powers Chainguard Engineering—the internal infrastructure, automation, and AI tooling that lets our engineers ship secure software at scale. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role on a team whose mission is to eliminate developer toil and shorten the path from a CVE being issued to a hardened artifact landing in our customers' hands. The team owns the internal platform end-to-end—monorepo CI/CD, our Agentic AI platform (DriftlessAF),...