Senior/Staff Software Engineer (SRE)

The role, in a nutshell:

As a Site Reliability Engineer, help us design, automate, and scale secure‑by‑default cloud infrastructure so uptime stays exciting and on‑call stays uneventful. We are seeking a talented and experienced SRE to join our team to develop and maintain cloud-based infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling robust infrastructure, including observability, metrics and alerting. You will also ensure our work is sustainable by promoting best practices around deployment, incident management and disaster recovery.

What you’ll do:

• Practice continuous improvement, by iterating on how services are deployed, configured, monitored, and maintained on our platform
• Lead incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages and alerts
• Help develop an operational focus and act as thought leaders for the rest of engineering
• Maintain and optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost.
• Analyze system metrics and identify opportunities for improvement in reliability and efficiency.

What we're looking for:

Skills and Experience:

• Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem
• Experience supporting high availability distributed production systems
• Experience with database administration and support
• Treated infrastructure as code utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack
• Familiarity working in a public cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Software development skills in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Javascript, and/or Ruby
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent in related work experience.
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• Ability to learn about the supply chain security space

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Experience scaling services in a performant and cost-effective manner
• Implemented incident management and disaster recovery playbooks
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity across multiple public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Operated a multi-tenant capable software defined network (SDN)
• Linux systems troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, API design, and software design patterns.
• Interest in open source software projects and communities

Please note we have flexibility to hire this role at the Senior or Staff level based on experience. The compensation range posted covers both levels however, below are the expectations based on level.

Senior: $144,000- $180,000

Staff: $170,000- $200,000

Base Salary Range

$144,000 - $200,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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