Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant components of the system from initial design to implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.

• Integrate security at the foundational level by safeguarding customer code throughout the entire process, enforcing least-privilege access, and auditing both system and operator activities.

• Collaborate with Product and Security teams on threat modeling and review processes.

• Ensure that Chainguard Harness functions as a dependable, observable, production-grade service.

• Make informed long-term decisions regarding scalability, cost, technical debt, and whether to build or buy solutions.

• Engage directly with customers, Product teams, and field representatives.

• Participate in customer calls and transform feedback into actionable roadmap items.

• Enhance the team's standards through comprehensive design documentation, code reviews, and mentorship.

• Showcase how AI tools can empower a small team to operate efficiently without compromising security.

• Drive architectural and technical decisions while advancing the product from beta to a scalable service suitable for a broader customer base and various environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software development.

• Proven history of building and managing production services with stringent security and data confidentiality requirements.

• Experience in designing systems that handle confidential customer information throughout the entire lifecycle.

• Familiarity with deploying software in air-gapped, disconnected, or heavily restricted environments.

• Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS, covering IAM, KMS, networking, and infrastructure as code (Terraform).

• Practical experience with virtualization and workload isolation technologies, such as KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, gVisor, nested virtualization, or bare-metal hosts.

• Working understanding of applied cryptography, including envelope encryption, key management and rotation, HSM/KMS-backed keys, and digital signing.

• Proficient in Go programming language.

• Experience with AI tools and a passion for leveraging them to solve complex problems; experience in developing agentic systems is advantageous.

• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.

• Capability to articulate a security model to engineers, security reviewers, and a customer's CISO.

• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and seek assistance when necessary.

• Ensure that the term DiscoTech is included in your resume.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Enjoy remote work options with opportunities for team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, as well as phone and internet expenses.

• Receive stock options upon hiring and upon promotion.

• Participate in secondary stock offerings.

• Have a 10-year period to exercise stock options.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance premiums fully covered for you and your dependents.

• Unlimited Flexible Time Off.

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, which can be taken all at once or throughout the child's first year.

• Opportunities for team meetups.

• Bi-annual destination summits.

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