Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened and secure builds of open source software. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Developer Platform team, focusing on improving developer experience and operational efficiency through innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on key areas of the Developer Platform contributing to technical implementation alongside the team
• Help improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience of the monorepo CI/CD pipeline so engineers spend more time shipping and less time waiting on or debugging builds
• Help productionize the Agentic AI platform: agent observability, RAG, and the context-engineering patterns that keep agents reliable from dev through prod
• Partner with the team to consolidate fragmented build systems and deliver standardized “paved road” blueprints so new products can onboard and ship to production quickly
• Partner with engineers across the company to identify toil, codify patterns, and automate repetitive manual work
• Participate in design and code reviews, and contribute your technical voice to engineering velocity and operational excellence

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments
• Proficiency with Go (Golang), or strong readiness to ramp quickly
• Experience with CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and the tooling required to scale a large monorepo across build, test, and release
• A strong AI-forward mindset; ability to connect your past technical experience with modern, AI-driven development practices (e.g., LLM-based automation, context engineering)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work with engineers across the company to identify and automate away repetitive manual tasks
• A genuine fit with a high-paced, 'ship it' culture: self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and focused on data-driven improvements to product delivery
• Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable build/workflow systems
• Background in developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE) and building the instrumentation to measure and improve them
• Experience operating a large Go monorepo and the tooling around it
• Familiarity with the supply chain security space, container ecosystems (OCI, Kubernetes), or open source software communities
• Experience running stakeholder feedback loops with engineering teams as customers