Jobs at Chainguard

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.

Own the vision, roadmap, and launch of a new AI-focused CI/CD product. Drive the product from internal system to customer offering through user research, design partners, developer experience, positioning, pricing, and cross-functional leadership. The role requires deep understanding of agent-driven software development, CI systems, technical product tradeoffs, and early-stage product development.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for shaping technical strategy and architecting automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image builds. The role involves developing production Go, AI- and LLM-powered developer tooling, quality frameworks, CLIs, and scalable services. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing roadmaps, improving reliability, and collaborating across distributed teams. Candidates need strong systems architecture, Linux, build systems, container ecosystem, and developer tooling experience, with familiarity in software supply chain security preferred.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, and integrations, along with AI- and LLM-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. Create quality tooling, evaluation loops, and security gates while contributing to system architecture and roadmap planning. Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across North America, Europe, and India.

Prospect and qualify potential cybersecurity clients through cold calling, email, social media, research, and industry events. Generate sales pipeline, meet lead-generation targets, schedule qualified meetings and demos, maintain CRM records, and collaborate with sales, marketing, and product teams. The role also requires staying informed about cybersecurity trends and competitor offerings while continuously improving sales skills and product knowledge.

Own and evolve the analytics platform, including data models, pipelines, metric definitions, semantic layers, dashboards, and self-service data products. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable technical solutions. Lead data initiatives, improve ELT reliability and governance, resolve quality issues, mentor teammates, and shape the Analytics team’s technical roadmap. The role requires strong SQL, dbt, modern data-stack experience, business communication, and independent execution in an ambiguous environment.

Serve as the technical lead for enterprise sales: qualify prospects, run demos, POVs/POCs, respond to RFPs/RFIs, partner with sales and engineering, and secure new logos while growing existing accounts.

Leads enterprise sales engineering for public-sector and Southeast customers, manages and develops a team of sales engineers, supports technical evaluations and account strategies, hires staff, tracks sales-performance metrics, creates technical collateral, communicates customer requirements to product teams, and manages budgets. The role requires extensive enterprise sales engineering experience, expertise in containers, cloud platforms, and security, plus familiarity with MEDDPICC or Command of the Message.

Supports the CEO as a strategic thought partner by managing calendars, meeting preparation, communications, travel, expenses, priorities, and confidential personal logistics. Provides administrative and calendar support to the VP of People and helps operate the New York City office, including procedures, events, amenities, and employee engagement initiatives. Requires strong organization, judgment, discretion, communication, adaptability, and the ability to work onsite in New York City and travel to Connecticut weekly.

Administer and improve financial systems including NetSuite, Ramp, and Pigment; manage configurations, users, workflows, reports, dashboards, and integrations using Workato. Support Accounting, Finance, and Legal teams across close, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and reporting processes. Troubleshoot data and synchronization issues, maintain data integrity and governance, support testing and releases, document solutions, train users, and identify automation and process improvements.

Own Chainguard’s technology integrations program from partner intake through launch and ongoing lifecycle. Define integration standards, manage the roadmap, prioritize work, coordinate partner engineering, Product, Solutions Engineering, Legal, Marketing, and field teams, and track portfolio health. Serve as the primary integration-side partner contact, drive timelines and accountability, and translate partner requirements into product priorities.

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 full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline development through closing complex deals. Manage enterprise accounts, lead discovery and qualification using MEDDPICC or similar frameworks, communicate value to technical and executive stakeholders, support technical evaluations with Sales Engineering and Customer Engineering, navigate procurement and security reviews, negotiate contracts, maintain accurate forecasts, and achieve revenue and pipeline targets.

Own cross-functional program management across Chainguard’s security organization, coordinating workflows, dependencies, priorities, and execution across Product Security, Cyber Resiliency, and Governance & Trust. Build dashboards and reporting for leadership visibility into security risk, exposure, and program health. Establish lightweight processes, communicate trade-offs, and partner with product, engineering, legal, finance, sales, and marketing. Over time, expand program and operating-process improvements across the company.

Own global tax compliance and treasury operations, including tax filings, provisions, indirect taxes, audits, transfer pricing, banking relationships, cash forecasting, liquidity, FX risk, and treasury policies. Advise cross-functional teams on tax implications, monitor regulatory changes, and build scalable processes, controls, and infrastructure as the company expands internationally.

Own and advance Chainguard’s internal Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, shared build infrastructure, and Agentic AI tooling. Improve developer experience, build reliability, change throughput, observability, and secure software delivery. Design scalable platform architecture, consolidate build systems, establish standardized delivery blueprints, automate developer toil, partner with engineering teams, and mentor engineers while contributing to technical direction and DORA-aligned outcomes.

Generate qualified enterprise pipeline through personalized outbound outreach to engineering, DevOps, and security leaders. Partner with enterprise account executives on account mapping, messaging, qualification, and deal progression. Research technical infrastructure and security priorities, lead meaningful early conversations, use Salesforce and sales engagement tools, test outreach strategies, and share market feedback with marketing and product. The role emphasizes pipeline quality, technical credibility, stakeholder engagement, and achievement of outbound targets.

Lead design and implementation of the Libraries Platform: services, pipelines, and package index to build, verify, and serve secure reproducible libraries. Automate artifact creation, CVE remediation, SBOM/provenance generation, AI-assisted patching, and operate registry/mirroring, CI/CD integrations, reliability, observability, and incident response while mentoring engineers.