Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Serve as post-sales primary contact for enterprise customers, driving onboarding, adoption, value realization, and renewals. Collaborate with solutions architects, support, product, and engineering to resolve issues, provide product expertise, train customers, and advocate customer needs internally.

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.

Build and operate backend services, package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving infrastructure in Go. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, observability, performance, load testing, production operations, and secure customer-facing systems. Responsibilities include implementing projects from design through release, participating in technical decisions, investigating production issues, reviewing code, and collaborating across engineering and product teams.

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.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline development through closing complex deals. Manage strategic accounts, lead discovery and qualification using MEDDPICC, communicate value to technical and executive stakeholders, coordinate technical evaluations, navigate procurement and security reviews, negotiate contracts, and maintain accurate forecasting. The role requires consistently meeting revenue and pipeline targets while partnering with sales engineering, marketing, customer success, and leadership in a fast-growing environment.

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository’s customer-facing package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving services. Build and operate highly available Go backend systems, improve scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing, and shape repository support for libraries, containers, images, and APKs. Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable infrastructure at scale.

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.