Responsibilities
- Improve and maintain Melange, including usability, testing, patch management, observability, and automation.
- Operate and develop the build service, improving reliability, resource usage, extensibility, and support for multiple architectures.
- Enhance automation for rebuild and transition workflows, including support for shared library transitions using build-time and runtime dependencies.
- Contribute to the reliability and performance of update automation systems with a close eye on costs and operational efficiencies.
- Improve monitoring, logging, dashboards, and general observability across services.
- Define and deliver on a roadmap for build and update services within the OS team.
- Document systems and reduce single points of knowledge within the team.
- Be an integral part of the OS team helping out with distro level package updates and keeping Chainguard OS up-to-date and secure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend or distributed systems.
- Experience with Linux build or packaging systems.
- Strong programming skills in Go.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and cloud-native service design.
- Familiarity with GCP services (e.g., BigQuery, IAM, Cloud Logging).
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems.
- Ability to work independently and communicate clearly in a remote-first environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience contributing to or maintaining build, packaging, or tooling projects.
- Observability and monitoring experience.
- Understanding of dependency management and rebuild automation.
- Experience with ARM64 build environments.
- Familiarity with BigQuery or Looker Studio for data analysis.
Additional Information
- If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply.
- Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer.
- At this time, Chainguard is unable to provide employment sponsorship.
- Completion of the self-identification survey is voluntary and will not be considered in the hiring process.
- Application deadline: 2026-04-30.
