Chainguard
Senior Software Engineer, Containers
$157K–$184K
Canada - Remote +4 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 28, 2026
- Location
- Canada - Remote
Germany - Remote
United Kingdom - Remote
United States - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 3+ years building and operating software used by paying customers.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to provide visa sponsorship or relocation.
About the job
Builds and operates features, services, and build systems for Chainguard Containers, from design through customer use.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and ship container product features and services, owning scope and trade-offs through launch.
- Build and maintain image pipelines, registry capabilities, and tooling for engineers and AI agents.
- Maintain system health through observability, on-call, and reliability fixes; work with customers and cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- Strong fundamentals in a systems language, API design, databases and caching, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
- Working knowledge of containers, container registries, the OCI image format, and Kubernetes.
- Daily use of agentic coding tools and ability to demonstrate their impact on work output.
- Excellent written English and experience working on a distributed, remote-first team.
Nice to have
- Go; preferably startup or hyper-growth experience.
- Software supply chain security (SBOMs, Sigstore signing, or SLSA), Chainguard tools (Wolfi, apko, melange), Terraform, or open-source contributions.
Pay
$157,000 — $184,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, OCI image format, Sigstore, Wolfi, Terraform
AI focus
Use AI coding agents in building, reviewing, and operating software; help improve their safe use. Build adoption tools for AI agents, including MCP servers that let agents discover and pull images.
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