Staff Software Engineer (Guarded Containers)

Chainguard · United States - Remote

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Guarded Containers) in United States - Remote. The role focuses on compilers & runtimes, virtualization & containers.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Beyond your own hands-on work, you'll multiply the team's output — mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping decide what we build as much as how we build it.
• Architect and drive the development of major new features and services that make Chainguard Images more powerful, compelling, and valuable to customers — this is a feature-first role, not a maintenance role.

Source and corrections

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