Staff Software Engineer (Repositories)

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Repository team to lead architecture and implementation of package registries, APIs, and production services. This infrastructure-heavy backend role involves writing Go services, building and operating customer-facing systems, improving reliability and performance, and shaping the expansion of Chainguard Repository beyond Libraries into a broader artifact platform. The engineer will own technical direction, drive scalability and observably,

8+ years of experience building and operating production backend/infrastructure systems with staff-level ownership and technical leadership. Strong Go experience or deep backend systems ability. Experience with customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, APIs, or high-scale serving systems. Experience deploying and managing services in production with reliability and observability focus. Comfort across application and infrastructure layers including Terraform. Strong systems inst