About the Role
<div class="content-intro"><p>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. <br><br>Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. <br><br>Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.</p></div><h3><strong>The role</strong></h3> <p class="wnfdntu _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">If you’re excited by the idea of helping build the trusted front door to secure open source software, this role is for you. Chainguard’s Repositories team owns the customer-facing infrastructure that serves Libraries today and is laying the foundation for a unified repository experience across more artifact types, including containers and APKs.</p> <p class="wnfdntu _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">We’re hiring a Software Engineer to help build and operate the Repository team’s core systems: package registries, APIs, and production services that securely serve artifacts to customers at scale and with high reliability.</p> <p class="wnfdntu _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">This is an infrastructure-heavy backend role at the intersection of software engineering and production infrastructure. You’ll develop Go services, contribute to customer-facing systems, improve reliability and performance, and learn how production infrastructure supports a broader artifact platform.</p> <p class="wnfdntu _1ibi0s3f5 _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3ea">This is an early, high-impact area for the company. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers, take ownership of well-defined projects, and grow your ability to make effective technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.</p> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build and improve customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems that make Chainguard software easy to consume securely and reliably.</li> <li>Implement well-scoped projects and features from technical design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration, with support from more experienced engineers.</li> <li>Develop and operate backend services in Go that serve Libraries today and help establish the foundation for containers, images, APKs, and other artifact types over time.</li> <li>Contribute to work involving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing for production systems.</li> <li>Participate in design discussions and help make thoughtful decisions about service boundaries, APIs, data flows, and operational patterns.</li> <li>Work with engineers and product partners across Chainguard to solve problems and deliver a cohesive repository experience.</li> <li>Review code, ask questions, share what you learn, and contribute to a supportive engineering team.</li> <li>Help investigate and resolve production issues, building your operational judgment and understanding of how customer-facing systems run in practice.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h3> <ul> <li>2+ years of experience building software, with some experience working on backend or infrastructure systems.</li> <li>Experience with Go, or strong programming experience in another language and the ability to learn Go quickly.</li> <li>Experience contributing to software projects from implementation through testing and release.</li> <li>Interest in building customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other backend systems.</li> <li>Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, debugging, and version control.</li> <li>Exposure to deploying or operating services in production, or a strong interest in developing those skills.</li> <li>Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is helpful but not required.</li> <li>A systems-oriented mindset and curiosity: you like understanding how things work, investigating problems, and improving your solutions over time.</li> <li>Clear communication and a collaborative approach, including the ability to ask for help, incorporate feedback, and work effectively in a remote environme