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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.

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    Seniority
    Senior
    Posted
    11 Sept 2026
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