Jobs at Chainguard

Own post-sales relationships for enterprise customers, leading onboarding, implementation, adoption, training, issue resolution, and account growth. Partner with technical, product, engineering, support, and sales teams to deliver customer outcomes, reduce churn, and identify renewals and expansions. Serve as the customer advocate, develop product expertise, manage escalations, and build processes in a startup environment.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, integrations, and AI-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, validation, and quality gates. Contribute to scalable systems design, roadmap planning, and developer tooling while collaborating with distributed teams. The role focuses on improving reliability and reducing manual intervention across Chainguard’s software image factory.

Partner with sales teams to win and expand enterprise customers by owning technical sales activities. Assess prospect requirements, conduct product demonstrations and proofs of concept, respond to RFPs and RFIs, deliver technical presentations, and communicate Chainguard’s cloud and application security value. Build relationships with decision-makers, manage stakeholder needs, support feature requests with engineering, and participate in webinars, conferences, and other marketing initiatives.

Design and manage scalable, automated customer success programs covering onboarding, adoption, engagement, and renewal. Build digital content, lifecycle campaigns, webinars, community programs, workflows, and playbooks that support customers efficiently. Analyze customer health, product usage, and engagement data to segment accounts, optimize outreach, and improve retention. Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Education, Sales, and Support teams to improve customer experiences and advocate for product enhancements.

Own post-sales relationships for commercial customers, leading technical onboarding, implementation, adoption, training, issue resolution, renewals, and expansion. Partner with Solutions Architects, Support, Product, Engineering, Sales, and customers to drive outcomes and time-to-value. Act as the customer advocate, manage escalations, develop product expertise, and independently build processes that improve customer success.

Generate enterprise pipeline through personalized outbound outreach to technical buyers, including developers, DevOps teams, security leaders, and engineering stakeholders. Partner with enterprise account executives on account strategy, qualification, messaging, and deal progression. Research modern infrastructure, understand customer risk and business priorities, use sales tools effectively, and provide market feedback to marketing and product teams.

Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

Supports global sales teams throughout the quote-to-signature lifecycle, including quote creation, pricing approvals, order form generation, contract workflows, and Salesforce opportunity closure. Manages CPQ and CLM systems, maintains data integrity, resolves deal blockers, and provides pricing and analytical support. Documents processes and collaborates with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product to improve deal execution, compliance, and scalability.

Own the end-to-end Athena member experience, product strategy, roadmap, and priorities across vulnerability intake, validation, remediation, patches, advisories, feeds, registry, console, and documentation. Translate customer feedback into a prioritized backlog, align engineering and business teams, manage technical tradeoffs, measure member experience, identify risks, and mentor product peers in a technical enterprise security environment.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

Owns end-to-end development of customer platform features, including Go backend systems, REST/gRPC APIs, entitlements, policies, and onboarding services. Collaborates across engineering teams, extends AI-powered customer experiences, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives product-focused delivery in ambiguous environments.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for Chainguard’s platform. Own features end-to-end from technical design through rollout and iteration, partnering with Product and front-end teams. Develop reliable, observable cloud-native services consumed across multiple products, contribute to roadmap prioritization, and deliver iteratively in a remote startup environment.

Own partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and revenue for commercial VARs and resellers. Recruit, activate, enable, and manage partners through scalable programs, joint prospecting, co-selling, business plans, and quarterly reviews. Align partner strategy with sales leadership, improve attach rates and deal velocity, maintain accurate forecasts and Salesforce pipeline data, and collaborate with sales, engineering, marketing, and operations. The role requires channel or software sales experience, quota attainment, technical aptitude in cloud and security, and strong communication and organizational skills.

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

Drive enterprise sales across the Central U.S. by developing territory plans, managing inbound and outbound leads, conveying product value, forecasting, exceeding quotas, tracking opportunities in CRM, and collaborating with product, support, and sales engineering teams. The role requires SaaS, security, or DevOps sales experience, strong relationship-building and communication skills, technical fluency, and willingness to travel to clients when needed.

Provides advanced technical support for enterprise customers using Chainguard Images. Responsibilities include triaging complex issues, investigating container and cloud environments, coordinating engineering escalations, meeting SLAs, communicating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, documenting solutions, contributing to knowledge bases, prioritizing support queues, and participating in after-hours on-call rotations.

Lead product marketing for Chainguard Containers, including product launches, growth initiatives, positioning, messaging, sales enablement, competitive analysis, pricing support, campaigns, events, and go-to-market strategy. The role partners closely with sales, sales engineering, demand generation, corporate marketing, product management, and engineering to communicate the value of cloud-native software security products and drive revenue growth.

Manage and grow a West Coast territory by developing leads, building executive relationships, communicating Chainguard’s secure software value proposition, managing CRM opportunities, forecasting, exceeding quota, and collaborating with product, support, and sales engineering teams. The role requires SaaS, security, or DevOps closing experience and occasional client travel as needed.

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of Chainguard’s database platform. Build production tooling and automated guardrails; improve replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and global database resilience. Assess risks across existing systems, establish standards and governance, write production code, and lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering teams. The role requires deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise, cloud infrastructure experience, Linux and Go proficiency, and staff-level technical leadership.