Staff Software Engineer (Platform)
Remote - US
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.
Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.
Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.
The role, in a nutshell:
We are seeking a talented and experienced Software Engineer to join our team to develop and maintain the core infrastructure and development platform. The platform team is responsible for designing, building, and scaling our core services, including authentication, database, API, SDK, and chainctl. In this role, you will be responsible for improving our data story, helping support analytical needs for the organization.
What you’ll do:
- Help maintain and expand our analytics data and dashboards
- Maintain our primary database and schema
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain core services for Chainguard
- Practice continuous improvement, by iterating on how services are deployed, configured, monitored, and maintained on our platform
What we're looking for:
Skills and Experience:
- Experience with database administration, using a SQL dialect
- Experience in data engineering, with a background in data architecture, data modeling and data management
- Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem
- Experience supporting high availability distributed production systems
- Treated infrastructure as code utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, 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
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience using dbt, BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage
- Experience using Kafka or Spark in designing data processing pipelines
- Experience integrating with Looker or other BI tools
- Experience scaling services in a performant and cost-effective manner
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and …
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100% covered health insurance Bi-annual summits Flexible remote culture Flexible time off Monthly stipend Stock options Team meetup opportunities Team meetups
Tasks- Collaborate on product requirements
- Develop core services
Ansible AWS Azure BigQuery Chef Cloud native development Containerization Data Architecture Database Administration Data engineering Data Management Data Modeling Dbt Debugging Docker Equity GCP Go Google Google Cloud High Availability Infrastructure as Code Javascript Kafka Kubernetes Linux Looker Microservices OCI Open Source Open Source Software Python Ruby SaltStack Security Software Development Spark SQL Terraform Troubleshooting
Experience5 years
EducationB.S. Computer Science Engineering MS Related Field
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