Jobs at Chainguard

Lead product marketing for Chainguard Containers, including product launches, growth initiatives, positioning, messaging, sales enablement, competitive analysis, pricing support, campaigns, events, and go-to-market strategy. The role partners closely with sales, sales engineering, demand generation, corporate marketing, product management, and engineering to communicate the value of cloud-native software security products and drive revenue growth.

Build and operate backend services, package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving infrastructure in Go. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, observability, performance, load testing, production operations, and secure customer-facing systems. Responsibilities include implementing projects from design through release, participating in technical decisions, investigating production issues, reviewing code, and collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Build and operate secure, customer-facing repositories, package registries, APIs, and backend services in Go. Develop features from design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration while improving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security. Participate in technical design, code reviews, production troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration to support artifact serving across libraries, containers, images, APKs, and other formats.

Build and operate backend services, package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems in Go. Develop features from design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration while improving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in code reviews and design discussions, investigate production issues, and help create a unified repository platform for libraries, containers, images, APKs, and other artifacts.

Manage and grow a West Coast territory by developing leads, building executive relationships, communicating Chainguard’s secure software value proposition, managing CRM opportunities, forecasting, exceeding quota, and collaborating with product, support, and sales engineering teams. The role requires SaaS, security, or DevOps closing experience and occasional client travel as needed.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle, including prospecting, pipeline development, discovery, qualification, deal strategy, negotiations, and closing. Sell technical security solutions to enterprise technical stakeholders, security leaders, and executives. Manage complex buying processes, partner with sales and customer engineering teams, maintain accurate forecasts, and consistently achieve revenue and pipeline targets.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle, including prospecting, pipeline development, discovery, qualification, deal strategy, technical evaluations, procurement, negotiations, forecasting, and closing. The role sells technical security solutions to enterprise technical stakeholders, security leaders, and executives while partnering with sales engineering, customer engineering, marketing, and customer success teams to achieve revenue and pipeline targets.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline development through closing complex deals. Manage strategic accounts, lead discovery and qualification using MEDDPICC, communicate value to technical and executive stakeholders, coordinate technical evaluations, navigate procurement and security reviews, negotiate contracts, and maintain accurate forecasting. The role requires consistently meeting revenue and pipeline targets while partnering with sales engineering, marketing, customer success, and leadership in a fast-growing environment.

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository’s customer-facing package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving services. Build and operate highly available Go backend systems, improve scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and load testing, and shape repository support for libraries, containers, images, and APKs. Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable infrastructure at scale.

Drive enterprise sales across the UK by developing account strategies, building executive relationships, communicating Chainguard’s value, managing inbound and outbound pipelines, forecasting quota, tracking opportunities in CRM, and collaborating across product, support, and sales engineering. Requires enterprise sales experience and knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps tooling, CI/CD, or software development lifecycles. Travel to clients may be required.

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of Chainguard’s database platform. Build production tooling and automated guardrails; improve replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and global database resilience. Assess risks across existing systems, establish standards and governance, write production code, and lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering teams. The role requires deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise, cloud infrastructure experience, Linux and Go proficiency, and staff-level technical leadership.

The Commercial Account Executive will develop and execute territory sales plans, build relationships with enterprise decision-makers, communicate Chainguard’s security and software value proposition, manage inbound and outbound pipelines, forecast and exceed quota, maintain CRM opportunities, and collaborate with product, support, and sales engineering teams. The role requires SaaS or security sales experience, knowledge of developer tools and cloud ecosystems, strong communication, competitive drive, and willingness to travel to clients when needed.

Lead a 15-person Container Product Engineering team building hardened container images, registry services, build systems, adoption tooling, and compliance features. Own team outcomes, hiring, coaching, roadmap execution, technical quality, delivery, planning, and cross-functional collaboration. Remain hands-on through code and design reviews while guiding AI-native engineering practices. The role partners with product and platform teams and offers a path toward broader Director-level scope.

Lead Chainguard’s European government affairs and public policy strategy across the UK and Europe. Engage regulators, governments, standards bodies, and industry coalitions; develop policy positions and consultation responses; translate cybersecurity regulations into product, positioning, and customer implications; and establish a scalable policy function. The role requires senior stakeholder engagement, technical policy communication, frequent regional travel, and eventual team-building responsibility.

Generate enterprise pipeline through personalized outbound prospecting to engineering, DevOps, and security leaders. Partner with account executives on account strategy, stakeholder mapping, messaging, qualification, and deal progression. Research customers’ software infrastructure, including containers, CI/CD, and cloud environments, to lead credible technical conversations. Use Salesforce, Outreach or Salesloft, and data tools to execute outreach, achieve pipeline targets, improve sales motions, and relay market insights to marketing and product teams.

Lead the architecture, development, scaling, and production operation of Chainguard’s malware scanning platform. Build detection-quality measurement systems, high-throughput scanning pipelines, verdict APIs, customer investigation and policy services, and reliable production infrastructure. Partner with Product Security to productionize threat detections, ensure performance and correctness, manage incidents, and improve observability. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across Product, Security, Design, and GTM.

Lead architecture, scale, and reliability for a production malware-scanning platform. Build detection-quality pipelines, metrics, feedback loops, scan orchestration, verdict APIs, threat-analysis systems, customer policy services, and operational tooling. Partner with Product Security to productionize detections across software artifacts and ecosystems. Own performance, correctness, observability, incident response, and customer-facing enforcement and appeals capabilities while mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

Leads and scales global People Operations, including employee lifecycle processes, HR compliance, international entity launches, HRIS strategy, EOR partnerships, and team development. Partners with Finance and Legal to support compliant payroll and employment operations across multiple countries. Builds scalable processes and uses AI to improve efficiency and employee experience in a high-growth SaaS environment.

Leads Chainguard’s global total rewards strategy across compensation and benefits. Manages the Total Rewards team, oversees compensation cycles, equity programs, market pricing, benefits design, and international expansion. Partners with leadership on pay strategy, cost management, compliance, and scalable processes as the company grows. The role requires substantial experience in high-growth SaaS or startup environments, international rewards programs, EOR management, and team development.

Build and operate scalable backend systems for Athena, including customer onboarding, entitlement logic, data ingestion, validation, deduplication, and agentic workflows. Develop in Go on GCP, use Terraform and GCP-native tooling, maintain observability and operational reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and lead subsystem development across multiple engineers.