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Senior Software Engineer (Experience)

Founded in 2021, Chainguard specializes in secure container images to transform the software supply chain, emphasizing zero vulnerabilities and developer productivity.

Chainguard

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 157k-184k USD

United States only

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Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The role, in a nutshell:

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help build and scale our Libraries products, a core part of Chainguard’s mission to secure the software supply chain.

This role sits within the Experience team, the frontline for all new product offerings. The team operates at a rapid pace, launching and iterating on multiple new products each year. You’ll play a key role in taking products from 0→1 and scaling them to thousands of users, with a strong focus on performance, usability, and developer experience.

You’ll own critical areas of the Libraries product, building high-performance interfaces that handle large-scale data while working closely with backend engineers and product partners.

What you’ll do:

  • Own and build key parts of the Libraries product UI
  • Design and implement high-performance web applications that handle large datasets (millions of packages, versions, and dependencies)
  • Partner closely with backend, product, and design to deliver end-to-end features
  • Build intuitive workflows that make secure software consumption frictionless for developers
  • Contribute to 0→1 product development, rapidly iterating and shipping new features
  • Leverage AI-driven workflows to accelerate development and improve product capabilities
  • Help shape how developers interact with and trust software supply chains

What we’re looking for:

  • 8+ years of experience building modern web applications at scale
  • Deep expertise in:
    • React
    • Material UI (or similar component systems)
    • GraphQL
  • Experience building high-performance UIs that manage large, complex datasets
  • Strong product ownership mindset. You can take a problem space and run with it
  • Experience working with modern frontend infrastructure (e.g., Vercel or similar)
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude, Copilot, or similar)
  • Experience building or integrating AI-driven product features or workflows
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Nice to Have

  • Experience with developer tools, package ecosystems, or registries
  • Exposure to software supply chain security or infrastructure products
  • Experience building data-heavy or analytics-driven interfaces
  • Background in monorepos or large-scale dependency systems
Base Salary Range
$157,000—$184,000 USD

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

  • We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
  • We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
  • We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
  • We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
  • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.

©2026 Chainguard. All Rights Reserved.

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Chainguard is at the forefront of enhancing software security in the open-source landscape. Founded in 2021 by industry veterans, Chainguard specializes in developing hardened, vulnerability-free container images designed to secure the software supply chain from the ground up. Their innovative approach emphasizes a philosophy of "Shift Left, Start Left," which integrates security measures directly into the software development lifecycle, ensuring that security is considered from the very beginning.

The secure container images created by Chainguard eliminate Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) before they can be introduced, addressing a wide array of programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Python, Go, along with notable services like Postgres and Redis. Chainguard’s solutions not only help in achieving compliance with essential standards like FedRAMP, NIST, and PCI-DSS, but also enhance developer productivity by removing friction in security processes.

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