Jobs at Chainguard

Own and advance Chainguard’s internal Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, shared build infrastructure, and Agentic AI tooling. Improve developer experience, build reliability, change throughput, observability, and secure software delivery. Design scalable platform architecture, consolidate build systems, establish standardized delivery blueprints, automate developer toil, partner with engineering teams, and mentor engineers while contributing to technical direction and DORA-aligned outcomes.

Generate qualified enterprise pipeline through personalized outbound outreach to engineering, DevOps, and security leaders. Partner with enterprise account executives on account mapping, messaging, qualification, and deal progression. Research technical infrastructure and security priorities, lead meaningful early conversations, use Salesforce and sales engagement tools, test outreach strategies, and share market feedback with marketing and product. The role emphasizes pipeline quality, technical credibility, stakeholder engagement, and achievement of outbound targets.

Own full-cycle recruiting for go-to-market roles across the Americas, from account executives to sales leadership. Partner with sales leaders on hiring priorities, build talent pipelines, assess sales capabilities, and deliver a strong candidate experience. Provide insights on sales talent, compensation, and recruiting strategy while improving scalable, human-centered hiring processes for a growing startup.

Lead design and implementation of the Libraries Platform: services, pipelines, and package index to build, verify, and serve secure reproducible libraries. Automate artifact creation, CVE remediation, SBOM/provenance generation, AI-assisted patching, and operate registry/mirroring, CI/CD integrations, reliability, observability, and incident response while mentoring engineers.

This is a general application opportunity at Chainguard for candidates interested in future job openings. It emphasizes inclusivity and values diverse experiences.

Build and operate Elastic Build and Melange to produce, validate, and deliver Chainguard OS packages. Improve reliability, scalability, automation, observability, and multi-architecture support; implement rebuild/review automation; run on-call, incident response, and document systems and roadmap.

Own and execute territory sales plans to prospect, qualify, and close enterprise deals. Articulate Chainguard's value, manage pipeline and CRM, collaborate with product/support/SE, forecast to meet quota, and travel to build customer relationships. Maintain competitive market knowledge and improve the sales cycle.

Coordinates recruiting logistics, including multi-time-zone interview scheduling, candidate travel arrangements, Greenhouse ATS management, reporting, interview materials, recruiting documentation, and candidate communications. Supports recruiters and hiring managers while maintaining accurate records, data integrity, confidentiality, and a smooth candidate experience. This contract-to-hire role requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and prior Greenhouse experience.

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Chainguard’s Console and public Directory experiences. Lead onboarding, activation, developer-led growth, subscriptions, account management, and cross-product workflows. Partner with Engineering, Design, GTM, and Product leaders to improve user journeys, drive adoption and conversion, establish scalable platform patterns, and balance short-term growth with long-term investments.

Build and operate the internal Developer Platform: improve monorepo CI/CD, scale agentic AI platform (observability, RAG, context engineering), consolidate build systems, automate developer toil, and drive DORA-aligned delivery across teams through design, code reviews, and platform roadmaps.

Own end-to-end commission calculation, validation, reporting, and payout; design and optimize compensation plans (accelerators, gates, multipliers); manage global plans and mega-deal structures; mentor a Senior Financial Analyst; build scalable processes, controls, and infrastructure to reduce commission pay rate and support growth.

Sell Chainguard's secure open-source software to SMB customers in the Central territory. Build pipeline from inbound/outbound leads, forecast and hit quota, manage opportunities in CRM, collaborate with product/support/SE teams, and travel to client sites as needed. Evangelize product value, understand competitors, and work cross-functionally to close deals.

As an intern at Chainguard, you'll gain hands-on experience through mentorship, work on real projects, and engage in professional development opportunities.

Enable and scale partner ecosystems by building technical champions, designing integrations and cloud-native architectures, developing partner assets (reference architectures, demos, playbooks), co-creating joint solutions, and supporting partner-led sales and adoption with up to 50% travel.

Build and operate backend systems and APIs (Go, REST/gRPC) for entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. Lead cross-team integrations, extend AI features into customer experiences, own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive a product-focused roadmap with iterative delivery.

Own and operationalize Chainguard's commissions function: calculate, validate, and report payouts; design and advise on compensation plans (accelerators, gates, multipliers, mega-deal structures); manage global plan types; mentor a Senior Financial Analyst; and build scalable processes, documentation, controls, and infrastructure to support growth and reduce commission pay rate toward target benchmarks.

Lead Chainguard's vulnerability pipeline: measure, disclose, and report thousands of novel vulnerabilities; run CNA/CVE assignments; coordinate embargoes with customers and maintainers; automate large-scale pipelines; represent Chainguard with standards bodies and AI model vendors to shape disclosure practices.

Lead product marketing for Chainguard Repository, managing launches, GTM strategy, and growth initiatives. Develop positioning, messaging, technical content, and enablement for sales and engineering. Translate malware and maintainer-behavior findings into credible narratives, collaborate across product, security, demand generation, and corporate marketing, and support roadmap and strategy communications.

Lead technical strategy to scale a multi-ecosystem libraries platform: generalize package indexing, build orchestration, and remediation automation from CVE detection to verified release. Drive agentic/AI-driven patch generation, set platform architecture and SLOs, mentor senior engineers, own incident response, and get hands-on resolving toolchain, compiler, and packaging failures for new ecosystems (.NET, Go, Rust).

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository: design, build, and operate high-availability backend services in Go that serve package registries and APIs; improve scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing; drive technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.