Senior Software Engineer, Containers

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and deploy features and services for Chainguard Containers from conception through production and initial customer utilization.

• Take ownership of project scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and delivery decisions.

• Collaborate with AI coding agents to build, review, and manage software.

• Analyze issues across services, customer interactions, support tickets, and go-to-market data.

• Ensure system reliability through observability, on-call duties, and corrective measures.

• Document design notes, pull request descriptions, and status updates.

• Create secure container images, registry services, build systems, distribution capabilities, and adoption tools.

• Work closely with Product Managers, customers, and a small, agile project team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in developing and managing software utilized by paying customers.

• High sense of agency and urgency in work.

• Strong judgment in making trade-off decisions.

• Systems thinking skills across build pipelines, registries, and customer clusters.

• Daily proficiency with agentic coding tools and the ability to showcase their impact.

• Comfort in dealing with ambiguity.

• Solid foundational knowledge in a systems programming language, preferably Go.

• Experience with API design, databases, and caching mechanisms.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, specifically on GCP or AWS.

• Working knowledge of containers, container registries, OCI image format, and Kubernetes.

• Exceptional written English skills.

• Experience working in a distributed, remote-first team environment.

• No visa sponsorship or relocation assistance available.

• Resume must include the term "DiscoTech."

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible, remote-first work culture.

• Opportunities for team meetups.

• Bi-annual destination summits.

• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses.

• Stock options provided upon hiring and promotion.

• Eligibility for participation in secondary offerings.

• Ten years allowed to exercise stock options.

• 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and their dependents.

• Flexible time off policy.

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.