Senior Software EngineerChainguard 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. We process vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, validate and deduplicate findings, and route clean signals to remediation. We are building the clearing house that sits between enterprise customers and our remediation engine.What you'll doBuild and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelinesTake on ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observabilityWork closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scaleWrite backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputsDesign, implement, and operate reliable agentic workflows that automate complex, multi-step tasks across production systemsParticipate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortemsBecome a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizonReview code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering barContribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native toolingWhat we're looking forSolid backend engineering foundation you've shipped and maintained production systemsStrong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experienceYou can navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approachExperience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradationAble to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversightExperience with Agentic AI workflowsExperience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plusSecurity or infrastructure domain knowledgeNice to have:Experience in security vulnerability domain, coordinated disclosure process, or CVE publication.About UsWe live and breathe our company values:We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.A few of the benefits we offer: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. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).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.∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply.

Senior Software Engineer (Athena) - Backend Go on GCP

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Grace Shiell

Andrew Li

Andrea Klemm

Katie Kilroy

Thy Nguyen

Matt Moore

Grace Shiell

Andrew Li

Andrea Klemm

Katie Kilroy

Thy Nguyen

Matt Moore

About Chainguard:

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