Software Engineer (Repositories)

Chainguard is hiring a Software Engineer for its Repositories team, which builds customer-facing infrastructure for securely serving software artifacts. The role develops and operates Go backend services, package registries, and APIs, while contributing to reliability, performance, and the foundation for a unified repository experience.

Responsibilities:

• Build and improve customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems that make Chainguard software easy to consume securely and reliably
• Implement well-scoped projects and features from technical design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration, with support from more experienced engineers
• Develop and operate backend services in Go that serve Libraries today and help establish the foundation for containers, images, APKs, and other artifact types over time
• Contribute to work involving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing for production systems
• Participate in design discussions and help make thoughtful decisions about service boundaries, APIs, data flows, and operational patterns
• Work with engineers and product partners across Chainguard to solve problems and deliver a cohesive repository experience
• Review code, ask questions, share what you learn, and contribute to a supportive engineering team
• Help investigate and resolve production issues, building your operational judgment and understanding of how customer-facing systems run in practice

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience building software, with some experience working on backend or infrastructure systems
• Experience with Go, or strong programming experience in another language and the ability to learn Go quickly
• Experience contributing to software projects from implementation through testing and release
• Interest in building customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other backend systems
• Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, debugging, and version control
• Exposure to deploying or operating services in production, or a strong interest in developing those skills
• A systems-oriented mindset and curiosity: you like understanding how things work, investigating problems, and improving your solutions over time
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach, including the ability to ask for help, incorporate feedback, and work effectively in a remote environment
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is helpful but not required
• 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems
• Strong Go experience, or deep backend systems experience with the ability to become productive in Go quickly
• Experience owning backend or infrastructure projects from design through production operation
• Experience building or operating customer-facing infrastructure such as package registries, artifact repositories, APIs, developer platforms, or other high-scale serving systems
• Strong judgment around reliability, observability, performance, security, and operational tradeoffs
• Experience deploying and managing services in production, including familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Strong systems instincts and curiosity: you proactively identify problems, investigate root causes, and improve the platform before issues become bottlenecks for customers or internal teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly in a remote environment where engineers are expected to work across teams and turn ambiguity into progress