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Senior Software Engineer, Sustaining Automation

Chainguard

Remote · United States$13,083–15,333 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

  • Build the automation platform
  • Contribute to the design of systems that orchestrate package creation, test generation, and image building.
  • Build AI-powered tooling
  • Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. Help design prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates.
  • Write production Go: This is a hands-on role — you'll develop 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.
  • Help shape the roadmap
  • Contribute ideas and technical input into planning; on a small squad, your voice will directly influence what the team builds next.
  • Collaborate across a distributed team: Work closely with teammates across time zones (primarily US/Canada, with close collaboration across EU and India-based colleagues on adjacent squads).

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    Remote
    Seniority
    Senior
    Posted
    11 Sept 2026
    Last verified
    In the last 5 days

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