Senior Software Engineer (Athena)

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP, including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
• ▹Take ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability
• ▹Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale
• ▹Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs
• ▹Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems
• ▹Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon
• ▹Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering bar
• ▹Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling

Requirements

• ▹Solid backend engineering foundation; you've shipped and maintained production systems
• ▹Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
• ▹Ability to navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
• ▹Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation
• ▹Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems
• ▹Security or infrastructure domain knowledge

What we offer

• ▹Flexible & remote-first culture with team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits
• ▹Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs
• ▹Stock options upon hire and promotion, ability to participate in secondary offerings, 10 years to exercise

About the company

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, production-ready builds relied on by software engineers and AI agents. Customers include Fortune 500 enterprises such as Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. The company is venture-backed by investors including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.