Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Chainguard, a leader in secure open-source software, as a Site Reliability Engineer. You will design, build, and scale robust cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance. Responsibilities include incident response, optimizing infrastructure, and promoting best practices. The ideal candidate possesses strong Linux experience, expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools, and software development skills. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment. If your experience closely aligns with our requirements, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem
• Experience supporting high availability distributed production systems
• Experience with database administration and support
• Treated infrastructure as code utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack
• Familiarity working in a public cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Software development skills in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Javascript, and/or Ruby
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent in related work experience
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• Ability to learn about the supply chain security space

Responsibilities

• Practice continuous improvement, by iterating on how services are deployed, configured, monitored, and maintained on our platform
• Lead incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages and alerts
• Help develop an operational focus and act as thought leaders for the rest of engineering
• Maintain and optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost
• Analyze system metrics and identify opportunities for improvement in reliability and efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling services in a performant and cost-effective manner
• Implemented incident management and disaster recovery playbooks
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity across multiple public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Operated a multi-tenant capable software defined network (SDN)
• Linux systems troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, API design, and software design patterns
• Interest in open source software projects and communities

Benefits

• Equity/stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
• Home office and internet stipend
• 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
• Monthly Wellness budget