Senior Software Engineer (Guarded OS)

About the Role

Join the GuardedOS team to design, build, and operate the critical infrastructure that powers Chainguard OS. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of our Kubernetes-based build pipelines and package management systems, ensuring secure and reliable software delivery at scale.

Responsibilities

• Operate and develop the Elastic Build service, focusing on reliability, performance, and multi-architecture support.
• Maintain and harden the Melange package build tool through improved instrumentation and testing.
• Design automation for rebuild and review workflows to streamline package updates.
• Build robust monitoring, dashboards, and alerting systems to proactively manage service health.
• Define the technical roadmap for build and update services while contributing to distro-level package security.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with backend or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience building production services or Kubernetes operators.
• Proven experience operating production services at scale and managing incident response.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and cloud-native architecture.
• Familiarity with GCP services, Terraform, and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience contributing to build, packaging, or Linux distro tooling projects.
• Deep knowledge of observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Familiarity with ARM64 build environments and dependency management automation.