Chainguard
Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
$205K–$231K
United States - Remote +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- United States - Remote
Remote - Canada
Remote - US
About the job
Owns and evolves the customer-facing platform APIs and backend services for entitlements, policies, onboarding, and integrations, while extending agentic AI into product experiences and providing technical leadership.
What you'll do
- Design, build, operate, and iteratively improve Go backend systems and REST/gRPC APIs.
- Coordinate integrations and technical standards across engineering teams; own features from design through rollout.
- Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and extend the agentic AI foundation into customer-facing products.
What they ask for
- Production Go experience.
- Experience designing, shipping, and operating API and backend systems at scale.
- Experience aligning multiple engineering teams on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud provider APIs; experience with entitlements, billing, or platform infrastructure.
- Prior exposure to building or extending AI-powered product features.
Pay
$205,000 — $231,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, REST, gRPC, Kubernetes
AI focus
Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences; prior AI product feature experience is a plus.
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