Senior Software Engineer (Repository)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer responsible for architecting and operating Chainguard Repository’s secure, customer-facing artifact infrastructure. The infrastructure-heavy backend role focuses on Go services, package registries, APIs, reliability, and high-scale artifact serving.

What you'll do

• Own technical direction for customer-facing registries, APIs, and serving systems.
• Design and operate high-availability backend services in Go.
• Improve scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing.
• Drive repository architecture, service boundaries, and operational patterns.
• Partner with engineers to support additional artifact types.

What you'll need

• 5+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
• Strong Go experience or deep backend systems experience with ability to ramp quickly in Go.
• Experience with customer-facing infrastructure such as registries, repositories, APIs, or developer platforms.
• Experience deploying and managing production services.
• Experience across application and infrastructure layers, including Terraform.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with package registries or artifact-serving platforms.
• Familiarity with provenance, SBOMs, and trusted artifact distribution.
• Open source experience in tooling, package ecosystems, or infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-artifact repository platforms.

Details

• Remote in the United States.
• Base salary: $157,000–$184,000 USD yearly.