Senior Software Engineer (Guarded OS)

Benefits

Parental leave

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Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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Salary

$157K-$184K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

46% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

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Deadline

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About this role

Senior Software Engineer (Guarded OS) United States - Remote Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. 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

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