Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Chainguard is on a mission to secure the open source supply chain, the infrastructure underneath the majority of software running in production today. This team is building Athena, the system that makes that possible at enterprise scale. We process vulnerability reports, validate findings, and route them to remediation. We're growing the team and want engineers who are eager to learn, comfortable with ambiguity, and ready to contribute to a product that matters. If you want to develop as an engineer inside a company that's already a leader in its market, this is a strong place to do it.

What you'll do

• Own moderately complex backend features and services in Go on GCP end-to-end from design through production with support as needed.
• Write clean, tested, production-ready code and improve it when you find things that don't meet that bar
• Work within data ingestion and validation workflows, learning the patterns for handling unstructured enterprise data
• Participate in code review, both giving and receiving direct, constructive feedback
• Contribute to infrastructure and configuration work using Terraform with support from senior engineers
• Support operational work by contributing to observability tooling, documentation, and on-call preparation as you grow into the role

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Backend engineering fundamentals: data structures, APIs, databases, systems thinking
• Go experience or strong experience in another statically typed language with demonstrated willingness to learn Go is a must
• You write code you're not embarrassed to have reviewed: readable, tested, and thoughtfully structured
• Curiosity and a methodical approach to debugging and data problems; ability to reason about systems you didn't build
• GCP or cloud platform experience
• Experience with or strong interest in data pipelines, validation logic, or workflow systems
• Security or infrastructure domain exposure

About Us

• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.