Senior Software Engineer (Guarded OS)
$157,000–$184,000 year
Remote · United Kingdom or United States
Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer to own Elastic Build service in Chainguard OS, operating a Kubernetes-based package build pipeline and maintaining Melange, with automation for rebuild/review workflows, monitoring, and observability. Role includes contributing to distro-level package updates, documenting systems, and ensuring Chainguard OS remains up-to-date and secure. Must have backend or distributed systems experience, strong Go skills, hands-on production-operations experience, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Cloud Run, GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD. Remote-first culture supported by flexible, globally distributed teams.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of software engineering experience with backend or distributed systems.
- Strong programming skills in Go. Comfortable writing production services, ideally including a Kubernetes operator or custom controller.
- Hands-on experience operating production services at scale, and has responded to real incidents, restored service, and improved systems to prevent recurrence.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and cloud-native service design.
- Familiarity with GCP services (e.g., BigQuery, IAM, Cloud Logging).
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems.
- Able to work independently and communicate clearly in a remote-first environment.
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