Chainguard
Software Engineer, Sustaining Automation
$121K–$142K
Canada - Remote +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Canada - Remote
United States - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 3–5 years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building and shipping production systems.
About the job
Build and maintain automation systems and AI-powered tooling that keep Chainguard packages and container images current, tested, and reliably building.
What you'll do
- Design and implement systems for package creation, test generation, and image building.
- Develop LLM-integrated agentic pipelines, including prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates.
- Build production Go CLI tools, services, integrations, and reliability tooling; contribute to squad planning.
What they ask for
- Strong Go skills.
- Experience using AI/LLMs to generate, review, and test code.
- Systems design skills and experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms.
- Container ecosystem knowledge (Docker, OCI, container registries, Kubernetes); based in the US or Canada.
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to a Linux distribution or maintaining many production services; open-source contributions.
- Familiarity with software supply chain security, melange, apko, Wolfi, or compliance frameworks.
Pay
$121,000 — $142,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Docker, OCI, Kubernetes, melange, apko, Wolfi
AI focus
Develop LLM-integrated agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation; design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates.
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