Chainguard
Senior Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
United Kingdom - Remote +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- United Kingdom - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 5+ years building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
About the job
Designs and builds customer-facing backend services and public APIs used across Chainguard’s products, including shared platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and evolve backend services and public APIs for multiple products and customer segments.
- Own features from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration with Product Management and the Experience team.
- Create technical design documents and help prioritize tradeoffs while delivering iteratively.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment.
- Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs, including versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, and usability.
- Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and building observable, resilient services.
Nice to have
- Prior experience building platform or shared services across multiple products or customer experiences.
- Experience in cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystems; CNCF tools; or meaningful open-source contributions.
Tools
Go (Golang), containers, Kubernetes, CNCF
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