Staff Software Engineer (Athena)

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened and secure builds of open source software. The Staff Software Engineer will own significant domains within the clearing house, drive architecture and implementation of backend systems, and establish engineering best practices for the team.

Responsibilities:

• Long-term ownership of a significant domain within the clearing house: customer onboarding workflows, entitlement management, or data validation pipelines
• Drive the architecture and implementation of backend systems in Go on GCP, ensuring they're production-ready: tested, observable, and maintainable
• Lead the design of data pipelines that ingest unstructured vulnerability reports, deduplicate findings, and produce clean structured outputs
• Establish and model engineering best practices for the team: code review standards, testing, incident response
• Partner closely with the principal engineer and manager on technical planning, architecture alignment and roadmap sequencing
• Collaborate with the libraries team on interface contracts and data quality requirements

Requirements:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a clear track record of owning large, complex systems in production
• Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
• Experience building systems that process and validate data from heterogeneous, unstructured sources with an analytical, research-based mindset
• You've taken a business problem from prototype or MVP to a reliable, scalable production service
• Experience designing systems with multiple customer entitlement levels, access controls, and workflow routing
• Comfortable with observability tooling: you don't just ship features, you make sure they're healthy in production
• Background in security, supply chain, or infrastructure domains is a plus but not required