Chainguard

Senior Software Engineer, Containers

United States (preferred); Canada, United Kingdom, Germany also considered. No visa sponsorship or relocation.

Senior

REMOTE

Chainguard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on Chainguard Containers, their core product. This role sits within a small sub-team of two to four engineers and involves designing and shipping features, services, and build systems for hardened, secure container images. You will work across the image build pipeline, container registry, adoption tooling for engineers and AI agents, and customer-facing product features. The position is fully remote and open to candidates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. The base salary range is $157,000–$184,000 USD.

Container image development

OCI image format

Container registries

Kubernetes

API design

Databases and caching

GCP

AWS

AI coding agents

Distributed systems

Observability

Remote-first collaboration

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