Chainguard

Staff Software Engineer, Containers

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

Staff

REMOTE

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead product engineering for Chainguard Containers, their core product. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will architect and ship major features across the container image build pipeline, registry infrastructure, distribution systems, and AI-agent adoption tooling. You will lead small sub-teams, make high-leverage architectural decisions, and work closely with Product and engineering leadership on roadmap. The role is fully remote, open to candidates in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany, with a base salary range of $205,00...

Container images

OCI image format

Container registries

Kubernetes

API design

Distributed systems

GCP

AWS

System design

Technical leadership

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

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