Chainguard
Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
$157K–$184K
United States - Remote +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- United States - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs.
About the job
Designs and delivers customer-facing backend services and public APIs shared across Chainguard products, from technical design through rollout and iteration.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve backend services and public APIs for multiple products and customer segments.
- Own features end-to-end in partnership with Product Management and the Experience team.
- Write technical design documents and help prioritize tradeoffs and deliver roadmap outcomes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
- Proficiency with Go (Golang), or readiness to ramp up quickly.
- Experience designing and evolving public APIs, including versioning, backwards compatibility, authentication, and usability.
- Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, containers, Kubernetes, and building observable, resilient production services.
Nice to have
- Experience building shared platform services across products or customer experiences, or in cloud-native, containers, security, or CNCF ecosystems.
- Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor.
Pay
$157,000 — $184,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go (Golang), Kubernetes, containers, microservices, public APIs
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