Staff Software Engineer, Containers

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive the delivery of major new features and services for Chainguard Containers, often spanning several engineers or teams, from concept through production and the first weeks of customer use.
• Make and own the high-leverage trade-offs: which capability to build first, what to defer, when to re-platform and when not to. Write the decision down and bring dissenting engineers along.
• Work with AI coding agents as part of how you build, review, and operate, and set the standard for how the team uses them safely as volume grows.
• Follow a problem wherever it goes: into another team's service, a customer call, a support ticket, or go-to-market data, and work across team boundaries to get ahead of planning cycles.
• Mentor and level up other engineers through design review and pair work, and set the standard for how the team designs, builds, and ships.
• Partner with Product and engineering leadership on roadmap, bringing a technical point of view to what we build, not only how.
• Keep the systems you own healthy: observability, on-call, and the fixes that stop the same page from coming back.
• Write clearly and often.
• Design notes, decision records, and status updates are how a remote team moves fast together.

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