Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
Join Chainguard as a Staff Software Engineer to lead backend systems for customer integration in a fully remote environment.
Posted by employer 23 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 7 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own features end-to-end
- Design, build, and evolve backend systems
- Serve as the primary technical interface
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship
- Contribute to a product-driven roadmap
Must have
- Production Go experience
- Strong ownership of API design
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers
Nice to have
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments
- Experience with entitlements or billing systems
- Prior exposure to building AI-powered product features
AI in the day-to-day
Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Software Engineer for the Customer Platform at Chainguard is responsible for managing the end-to-end development of backend systems, including APIs and customer onboarding services. This role requires proficiency in Go and experience with scalable API design, as well as the ability to collaborate across multiple engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background, including mentorship experience, and should be comfortable navigating ambiguity. Chainguard emphasizes a customer-centric approach and values intentional action within its remote-first culture.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Chainguard's careers page October 14, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Chainguard: United States.
- Kubernetes appears in 35.3% of 51 comparable staff backend roles in Canada; REST appears in 2% of 51 comparable staff backend roles in Canada.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform) role remote?
- Yes — Chainguard lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, Kubernetes, REST, gRPC.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Chainguard targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform) role at Chainguard.
From the original posting
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. 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.
Staff Software Engineer (Customer Platform)
Remote: US, UK, Canada
The role, in a nutshell:
Chainguard secures the software supply chain and Customer Platform is how every customer, partner, and internal product line actually connects to it. This team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable everything else. It's the first thing a customer touches and the integration layer every internal team depends on. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who owns hard problems end to end, moves without hand-holding, and can be the technical anchor for a team that touches every corner of the company.
What you'll do:
- 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
- Serve as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other Chainguard engineering teams (Containers, Libraries, OS packages) by understanding their requirements and building integration paths
- Extend Chainguard's agentic AI foundation into customer-facing product experiences
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers; help the team break down ambiguity and build toward clear outcomes
- Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for "perfect”
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- Production Go experience
- Strong ownership of API design and backend systems at scale; you've shipped and operated them in production
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to align on technical standards, integration patterns, and shared infrastructure
- Comfort operating in ambiguity you come with a diagnosis, a recommendation, and a path forward, not just a problem statement
- 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
- Prior exposure to building or extending AI-powered product features is a plus
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