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Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

Supports global sales teams throughout the quote-to-signature lifecycle, including quote creation, pricing approvals, order form generation, contract workflows, and Salesforce opportunity closure. Manages CPQ and CLM systems, maintains data integrity, resolves deal blockers, and provides pricing and analytical support. Documents processes and collaborates with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product to improve deal execution, compliance, and scalability.

Own the end-to-end Athena member experience, product strategy, roadmap, and priorities across vulnerability intake, validation, remediation, patches, advisories, feeds, registry, console, and documentation. Translate customer feedback into a prioritized backlog, align engineering and business teams, manage technical tradeoffs, measure member experience, identify risks, and mentor product peers in a technical enterprise security environment.

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

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.

Owns end-to-end development of customer platform features, including Go backend systems, REST/gRPC APIs, entitlements, policies, and onboarding services. Collaborates across engineering teams, extends AI-powered customer experiences, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives product-focused delivery in ambiguous environments.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for Chainguard’s platform. Own features end-to-end from technical design through rollout and iteration, partnering with Product and front-end teams. Develop reliable, observable cloud-native services consumed across multiple products, contribute to roadmap prioritization, and deliver iteratively in a remote startup environment.

Own partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and revenue for commercial VARs and resellers. Recruit, activate, enable, and manage partners through scalable programs, joint prospecting, co-selling, business plans, and quarterly reviews. Align partner strategy with sales leadership, improve attach rates and deal velocity, maintain accurate forecasts and Salesforce pipeline data, and collaborate with sales, engineering, marketing, and operations. The role requires channel or software sales experience, quota attainment, technical aptitude in cloud and security, and strong communication and organizational skills.

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

Drive enterprise sales across the Central U.S. by developing territory plans, managing inbound and outbound leads, conveying product value, forecasting, exceeding quotas, tracking opportunities in CRM, and collaborating with product, support, and sales engineering teams. The role requires SaaS, security, or DevOps sales experience, strong relationship-building and communication skills, technical fluency, and willingness to travel to clients when needed.