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Staff Software Engineer, Sustaining Automation
Chainguard
Remote · United States$17,083–19,250 gross/mofull-timeChainguard Careers
Chainguard delivers the industry's most secure container images: minimal, zero-CVE, rebuilt daily from source. This role sits on our Package and Image Automation team, part of Sustaining Automation — the group that owns the automation underpinning our entire image factory.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical vision: Help set the roadmap and priorities for the squad, partnering with engineering leadership in ongoing planning cycles rather than a single fixed plan.
- Architect the automation platform
- Design the end-to-end system that orchestrates package creation, test generation, and image building.
- Own technical decisions that need to scale.
- Build AI-powered tooling
- Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation.
- Design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates.
- Write production Go: This is a hands-on role — you'll build CLI tools, services, and integrations alongside your team.
- Build quality tooling
- Develop tooling and automation that improves customer reliability, including test generators, validation frameworks, and quality gates.
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Posted
- 11 Sept 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days
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