Chainguard
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
Chainguard
$157k - $184k
Europe - Remote
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform

Senior Software Engineer (Containers)

Overview

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be part of our Containers team, whose mission is to develop new features for our customers, build and improve tooling and infrastructure, and maintain product quality standards for our core product – Chainguard Images.

Responsibilities

  • - Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional teams to design innovative services and features that enhance the core product, making it more compelling and valuable.
  • - Develop robust tools and services to continue to improve our image build system as it scales.

Required Skills

  • - Bachelor''s degree or equivalent practical experience
  • - 5+ years of experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, compilers, Makefiles, and toolchains
  • - Expertise with containers, container registries, Docker, Kubernetes and its greater ecosystem
  • - Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code, and proficiency in creating modules and organizing resources logically for reuse.
  • - Experience writing services or tools in Go
  • - Strong communication skills, proficiency in English, ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and seek help proactively when necessary.

Benefits

  • - Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
  • - Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
  • - 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
  • - ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
  • - 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child''s first year.

About the company

Chainguard believes engineering teams should move at the speed of innovation with confidence that every line of code is secure. The company protects open source software from what can go wrong, enabling teams to focus on building what matters. Securing the open source supply chain is Chainguard’s mission. Teams are often told they must choose between speed, security, and scalability when building on open source—achieving all three is seen as impossible. Chainguard’s co-founders rejected that trade-off. With decades of experience building foundational projects like Kubernetes, Sigstore, and Distroless, they recognized that these priorities are not in conflict but part of the same system.


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