Senior Software Engineer, Customer Platform

Overview

Design and build customer-facing backend services and public APIs for Chainguard's Platform team, which owns notification, authentication, and the next generation of public APIs used across multiple products.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs by understanding how different Chainguard products and customer segments use shared platform capabilities, and ensuring APIs and services work well for all of them.
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration, in close partnership with Product Management and the Experience (front-end) team.
• Create technical design documents and drive your own design plans with clarity and confidence.
• Contribute to a product-driven roadmap with real deadlines and clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for "perfect."

What you'll need

• Strong backend engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience building production services and APIs in a modern cloud environment
• Proficiency with Go (Golang) or strong readiness to ramp quickly
• Experience designing, implementing, and evolving public APIs consumed externally and internally across multiple products or services
• Ability to talk about versioning, backwards compatibility, auth, and usability from real-world experience
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native architectures, including containers and Kubernetes, and building services that are observable and resilient in production
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including working with PMs, designers, and engineers across multiple product lines
• Proven ability to thrive in a remote, startup environment: self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and interested in a high-paced, high-intensity, "ship it" culture
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Nice to have

• Prior experience building platform or shared services that span multiple products or customer experiences
• Experience in the cloud-native, containers, or security ecosystem, or with tools in the broader CNCF space
• Meaningful open source contributions, especially as a maintainer or regular contributor in relevant projects

Details

• Location: Canada, remote