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Serve as post-sales primary contact for enterprise customers, driving onboarding, adoption, value realization, and renewals. Collaborate with solutions architects, support, product, and engineering to resolve issues, provide product expertise, train customers, and advocate customer needs internally.

Build and operate Elastic Build and Melange to produce, validate, and deliver Chainguard OS packages. Improve reliability, scalability, automation, observability, and multi-architecture support; implement rebuild/review automation; run on-call, incident response, and document systems and roadmap.

Lead and manage Chainguard's US commercial legal team while remaining a hands-on negotiator. Own commercial contracting, enterprise deal negotiation, playbooks, and cross-functional alignment. Ensure compliance with open source licensing and US privacy/data security frameworks, support sales velocity, and lead quarter-end closing cycles.

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.

Own and execute territory sales plans to prospect, qualify, and close enterprise deals. Articulate Chainguard's value, manage pipeline and CRM, collaborate with product/support/SE, forecast to meet quota, and travel to build customer relationships. Maintain competitive market knowledge and improve the sales cycle.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will enhance CI/CD pipelines, improve developer experience, and productionize AI tooling while mentoring teammates and collaborating with engineering leaders.

Sell Chainguard's hardened open-source and security solutions to SMB customers in the Eastern US. Build territory plans, manage pipeline, forecast and exceed quota, collaborate with product and sales engineering, and evangelize secure software practices. Travel to client sites as needed and maintain CRM and competitive knowledge.

Develop and write executive and customer thought leadership (blogs, bylines, social, video), manage executive social presence, prepare spokesperson talking points, translate technical topics for target audiences, align storytelling with marketing/PR/events, and own content calendars and operations across multiple executives.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs; own features end-to-end from design through rollout; create technical design documents; ensure services are observable, resilient, and usable across multiple products; collaborate closely with Product and Experience teams to prioritize and ship iterations.

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