Chainguard

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Staff Software Engineer (Guarded Libraries) As a Staff Engineer on Chainguard’s Libraries team, you will drive the technical strategy and implementation for our libraries, with a special focus on AI/ML. This role involves designing and maintaining secure, reliable, and automated build systems for AI/ML toolchain packages and related tooling. Your expertise will help expand and maintain Chainguard’s coverage over mission-critical libraries, advance our build automation, and improve vulnerability remediation workflows across the package ecosystem. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain AI/ML package infrastructure, including building, testing, and distributing ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, etc.) in reproducible and secure ways Develop and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns to support reproducible deployment of ML services and pipelines. Contribute to automation pipelines for building and verifying AI/ML packages (Python wheels, containers, etc.). Assist with troubleshooting toolchain-related build failures. Implement and maintain observability, CI/CD, and policy enforcement systems for AI/ML workloads and infrastructure. Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies in the AI/ML ecosystem with secure-by-default packaging and reproducibility principles. Qualifications Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure). Experience in Python packaging, including building and distributing wheels and dependencies. Background in compilers, toolchains, and native build systems. Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX) and their build/deployment ecosystems. Familiarity with software supply chain security best practices (SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, etc.) Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Tekton, or similar). Working knowledge of Linux packaging and reproducible build systems (Alpine, Wolfi, Nix, Bazel, etc.) is a plus. Nice-to-Have Contributions to open-source ML, DevOps, or packaging projects. Experience with secure software supply chain tooling (SBOMs, provenance, attestation). Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure orchestration tools (Kubeflow, MLflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, etc.). Base Salary Range $170,000—$213,000 USD About 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. 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. 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