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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.

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.

Develop and write executive and customer thought leadership (blogs, bylines, social, video), manage executive social presence, prepare spokesperson talking points, translate technical topics for target audiences, align storytelling with marketing/PR/events, and own content calendars and operations across multiple executives.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs; own features end-to-end from design through rollout; create technical design documents; ensure services are observable, resilient, and usable across multiple products; collaborate closely with Product and Experience teams to prioritize and ship iterations.

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

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 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.