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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.

Own the vision, roadmap, and launch of a new AI-focused CI/CD product. Drive the product from internal system to customer offering through user research, design partners, developer experience, positioning, pricing, and cross-functional leadership. The role requires deep understanding of agent-driven software development, CI systems, technical product tradeoffs, and early-stage product development.