Salary

Competitive

Location

🌍 Anywhere

Job Type

Full-time

Work Mode

100% Remote

Source

Himalayas

The role, in a nutshell:

Chainguard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to take a significant role on the services and tooling that build and update the software that makes up Chainguard OS. This role sits within the GuardedOS team — the foundation layer on which every Chainguard product depends, and will primarily focus on Elastic Build, our Kubernetes-based package build pipeline.

This is a high-ownership, high-variety engineering role. You will design, implement, operate, and improve the systems that keep Chainguard OS Packages up to date. You’ll be the person who turns ambiguity into an action plan and executes without breaking things — fast, with a clear eye on long-term maintainability.

What you’ll do:

• Operate and develop the Elastic Build service, our Kubernetes + GitHub + Cloud Run pipeline that converts package specifications into real downloadable artifacts, improving reliability, performance, resource usage, and multi-architecture support.
• Maintain and improve Melange, our package build tool, with a focus on usability, testing, patch management, and observability. Melange is largely feature-complete; the work here is hardening and instrumentation, not feature addition.
• Design and build automation for rebuild and review workflows — keeping a human in the approval chain while removing every step that can be automated. Support shared library trans