Staff Software Engineer (Athena)

About the role

Chainguard secures the open source supply chain, the infrastructure underneath the majority of the software running in production today. This team is building Athena, the system that makes that possible at enterprise scale (Read more about Athena here).

Responsibilities

• Long-term ownership of a significant domain within the clearing house: customer onboarding workflows, entitlement management, or data validation pipelines
• Drive the architecture and implementation of backend systems in Go on GCP, ensuring they're production-ready: tested, observable, and maintainable
• Lead the design of data pipelines that ingest unstructured vulnerability reports, deduplicate findings, and produce clean structured outputs
• Establish and model engineering best practices for the team: code review standards, testing, incident response
• Partner closely with the principal engineer and manager on technical planning, architecture alignment and roadmap sequencing
• Collaborate with the libraries team on interface contracts and data quality requirements

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a clear track record of owning large, complex systems in production
• Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
• Experience building systems that process and validate data from heterogeneous, unstructured sources with an analytical, research-based mindset
• Experience designing systems with multiple customer entitlement levels, access controls, and workflow routing
• Comfortable with observability tooling: you don't just ship features, you make sure they're healthy in production

Qualifications

• Background in security, supply chain, or infrastructure domains is a plus but not required

Skills

• Experience with security and supply chain domains is a plus but not required

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture
• Approach to Equity
• 100% Covered Health Insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Pay

• Base Salary Range $170,000—$231,000 USD

Schedule

• Remote — US, Canada, UK