engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoStaff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
at Chainguard
CanadaRemote
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the partner Chainguard teams.
- Design, build, and evolve the backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) that power Chainguard's entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services
Requirements
- By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
- This team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable everything else.
- Serve as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other Chainguard engineering teams (Containers, Libraries, OS packages) — understanding their
- Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences
- experience is a must. At the staff level, the expectation is deep, idiomatic Go, not "willing to learn"
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to align on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without needing a management title to do it
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs) is a strong plus •
- Experience with entitlements, billing systems, or platform infrastructure is a plus but not required
Benefits
- Prior exposure to building or extending AI-powered product features is a plus Base Salary Range $205,000 — $231,000 USD About Us
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion.
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.