Senior Software Engineer, Containers

Chainguard

. Design, build, and ship features and services for Chainguard Containers from design through production and initial customer use .

Posted 11/4/2026full-timeRemote • United States, Canada, United Kingdom, GermanySenior💰 $157,000 - $184,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating software for customer use, with strong fundamentals in Go and experience in API design, cloud infrastructure, and container technologies. Capable of collaborating effectively in a remote-first environment while maintaining system health and delivering high-quality features.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Go Programming LanguageAPI DesignCloud Infrastructure (GCP or AWS)Container Technologies (Kubernetes, OCI)DiscoTech

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentSystems ThinkingDatabase ManagementCaching TechniquesObservabilityBuild PipelinesContainer Image CreationRegistry ServicesAdoption ToolingAgentic Coding Tools

Soft Skills

High AgencyJudgment on Trade-offsComfort with AmbiguityExcellent Written CommunicationCollaboration

Industry Keywords

Distributed TeamRemote-FirstCustomer SupportGo-to-Market DataSystem Health

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and ship features and services for Chainguard Containers from design through production and initial customer use
Own scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and delivery decisions
Work with AI coding agents in building, reviewing, and operating software
Investigate problems across services, customer calls, support tickets, and go-to-market data
Maintain system health through observability, on-call, and corrective fixes
Write design notes, pull request descriptions, and status updates
Build hardened container images, registry services, build systems, distribution capabilities, and adoption tooling
Collaborate directly with Product Managers, customers, and a small end-to-end project team

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years building and operating software used by paying customers
High agency and urgency
Judgment on trade-offs
Systems thinking across build pipelines, registries, and customer clusters
Daily use of agentic coding tools and ability to demonstrate their impact
Comfort with ambiguity
Strong fundamentals in a systems language, preferably Go
Experience with API design, databases and caching
Experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS
Working knowledge of containers, container registries, OCI image format, and Kubernetes
Excellent written English
Experience working on a distributed, remote-first team
No visa sponsorship or relocation provided
Resume must include the term "DiscoTech"

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible and remote-first culture
Team meetup opportunities
Bi-annual destination summits
Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
Stock options upon hire and promotion
Participation in secondary offerings
10 years to exercise stock options
100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
Flexible time off
18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents