Senior Software Engineer, Containers

Senior Software Engineer in Container Product Engineering at Chainguard. Design and ship features for Chainguard Containers, including product features, image build pipeline, registry performance, and adoption tooling. Work directly with Product Managers and customers, own trade-offs, and ship end-to-end. Responsibilities include designing, building, and shipping new features, owning trade-offs, working with AI coding agents, following problems across teams, keeping systems healthy, and writing.

3+ years building and operating software for paying customers, preferably at a startup or hyper-growth. High agency, judgment on trade-offs, systems thinker, AI-native, comfortable with ambiguity. Strong fundamentals in Go, API design, databases, caching, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS). Working knowledge of containers, OCI, Kubernetes. Low ego, excellent written English. Nice to haves: supply chain security, Chainguard tools, Terraform, open-source contributions, non-traditional path.