Staff Software Engineer, Repositories

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical strategy for significant components of Chainguard Repository, encompassing customer-facing registries, APIs, and serving systems that facilitate secure and reliable consumption of Chainguard artifacts.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-availability backend services in Go that currently serve libraries and contribute to the groundwork for containers, images, and APK repositories in the future.

• Lead initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing for production systems that customers rely on directly.

• Influence technical decisions regarding repository architecture, service boundaries, and the operational patterns essential for managing artifact-serving infrastructure at scale.

• Collaborate closely with engineers across Libraries, Build Platform, Delivery, Product, and Security to foster a unified repository experience and facilitate support for additional artifact types as they emerge.

• Mentor fellow engineers, elevate the standards for design and code reviews, and serve as a force multiplier within a dynamic team where staff engineers are expected to take ownership of significant deliverables and contribute to shaping team operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems, with demonstrable evidence of staff-level ownership and technical leadership.

• Strong experience in Go, or extensive backend systems expertise with the capacity to quickly adapt to Go.

• Experience in creating or managing customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems.

• Proven experience in deploying and managing production services, with sound judgment regarding reliability, observability, performance, and operational trade-offs.

• Comfortable navigating application and infrastructure layers, including service development, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.

• Possess strong systems instincts and curiosity: proactively identify issues, pursue resolutions, and enhance the platform before problems become bottlenecks for customers or internal teams.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, particularly in a remote setting where staff engineers are expected to foster alignment across teams and transform ambiguity into actionable progress.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hiring and promotion. Additionally, you can participate in secondary offerings and have a generous 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).

• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover the entirety of your health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents, with no deductions from your paycheck.

• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need—performing at our best requires us to recharge and reset.

• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We provide 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the flexibility to use it all at once or spread it throughout your child's first year.