Jobs at Chainguard

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.

Serve as primary legal partner to Go-To-Market: draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, enterprise, professional services, partner, and NDAs; maintain standard form agreements and online terms; advise on open source licensing and regulatory requirements; negotiate with sophisticated, highly regulated customers; partner cross-functionally to enable revenue while managing legal risk.

Manage partner relationships with VARs to drive pipeline and revenue, recruit high-performing partners, and improve partner sales effectiveness while achieving quota.

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.

Build and scale the Libraries product UI, designing high-performance web applications that handle millions of packages. Partner with backend, product, and design to deliver end-to-end features, iterate from 0→1, integrate AI-driven workflows, and improve developer experience, performance, and usability.

Own partner technical enablement and post-sales support: build training and content, co-deliver implementations, perform architecture reviews and escalations, liaise between partners and product/engineering, and drive partner adoption and scale for Chainguard solutions.

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.

Build and prototype AI-enabled internal tools and automations by partnering with cross-functional teams, validating high-leverage use cases, integrating LLM APIs and SaaS systems, and modeling secure, responsible AI practices to enable broader adoption.

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

Chainguard seeks an Enterprise Account Executive to drive sales, manage key accounts, and exceed quotas while building customer relationships.

Owned territory enterprise sales: build pipeline from inbound/outbound, articulate value prop, manage opportunities in CRM, forecast and exceed quota, collaborate with product/support/SE, and engage customers to close deals.

Chainguard is seeking team members who are customer obsessed and value transparency, to support their mission in software security.

The role involves executing sales plans, managing leads, and exceeding sales targets in the enterprise sector, primarily for a tech company.

The Compensation Manager will lead compensation planning, conduct market benchmarking, and work cross-functionally to define and operationalize compensation strategies for a growing tech company.

Run technical outbound to generate enterprise pipeline by engaging engineering and security stakeholders, qualifying opportunities, collaborating with AEs on account strategy, and using Salesforce and Outreach/Salesloft to track and improve messaging.

Provide executive support to GVP Americas and GVP International: manage complex calendars, travel, communications, and meeting prep; support revenue programs and events; act as primary onsite NYC office manager handling vendors, facilities, and workplace experience; coordinate with Revenue leadership and EBPs; ensure operational excellence and discretion. Expected onsite presence ~2 days/week.

The BDR role involves prospecting, qualifying leads, scheduling appointments for the sales team, and maintaining CRM records to drive revenue growth in the DACH region.

This is a general application opportunity at Chainguard for candidates interested in future job openings. It emphasizes inclusivity and values diverse experiences.