Jobs at Chainguard

Own Chainguard’s account-based marketing program for strategic enterprise and regulated accounts. Design and execute 1:1, 1:few, and 1:many campaigns across paid media, web, email, gifting, and executive events. Build ABM playbooks, tooling, automation, AI agents, target-account programs, and measurement frameworks. Partner with Sales, BDRs, and partners to accelerate pipeline, improve account engagement, and report performance using marketing and business intelligence systems.

Own post-sales relationships for enterprise customers, leading onboarding, implementation, adoption, success planning, value realization, issue resolution, training, and account growth. Partner with technical, product, engineering, support, and sales teams to advocate for customers, resolve risks, drive renewals, and demonstrate business value. The role requires strong technical knowledge of cybersecurity and cloud environments, strategic autonomy, executive communication, and customer-facing enterprise experience.

Leads enterprise sales engineering strategy and manages a team of sales engineers. Partners with sales leadership and enterprise customers to demonstrate solution value, develop technical account plans, support evaluations, and provide customer insights to product management. Oversees hiring, performance goals, coaching, sales collateral, technical metrics, budgets, and continuous staff improvement. Requires extensive enterprise sales engineering experience, cloud and container security expertise, and familiarity with MEDDPICC or Command of the Message.

Partners with sales teams to win enterprise and mid-market customers by assessing technical needs, demonstrating Chainguard products, conducting POVs and POCs, responding to RFPs and RFIs, and serving as a trusted technical advisor. Owns technical aspects of sales opportunities, collaborates with engineering on requested features, supports customer value realization, and participates in webinars, conferences, and marketing initiatives.

Partner with sales teams to win and expand enterprise and mid-market customers by owning technical sales activities. Assess customer requirements, conduct product demonstrations and proof-of-concepts, respond to RFPs and RFIs, negotiate stakeholder needs, and communicate Chainguard’s cloud and container security value. The role also involves collaborating with engineering on feature requests and participating in webinars, conferences, meetups, and other marketing initiatives.

The Commercial Sales Engineer partners with sales teams to design tailored technical solutions for startup and midmarket customers. Responsibilities include advising prospects on Kubernetes, Docker, serverless, cloud platforms, cloud security, and application security; applying MEDDPICC and Command of the Message; engaging technical decision-makers; building trusted customer relationships; and staying informed on competitors and industry trends.

Enterprise Sales Engineer responsible for owning technical aspects of sales opportunities, conducting product demonstrations and proofs of concept, responding to RFPs and RFIs, and helping enterprise and mid-market customers evaluate Chainguard’s cloud and application security solutions. The role partners with sales and engineering, supports customer acquisition and expansion, participates in marketing events, and builds relationships with technical decision-makers. Must be located in the Boston area.

Own post-sales relationships for enterprise customers, leading onboarding, implementation, adoption, training, issue resolution, and account growth. Partner with technical, product, engineering, support, and sales teams to deliver customer outcomes, reduce churn, and identify renewals and expansions. Serve as the customer advocate, develop product expertise, manage escalations, and build processes in a startup environment.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, integrations, and AI-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, validation, and quality gates. Contribute to scalable systems design, roadmap planning, and developer tooling while collaborating with distributed teams. The role focuses on improving reliability and reducing manual intervention across Chainguard’s software image factory.

Partner with sales teams to win and expand enterprise customers by owning technical sales activities. Assess prospect requirements, conduct product demonstrations and proofs of concept, respond to RFPs and RFIs, deliver technical presentations, and communicate Chainguard’s cloud and application security value. Build relationships with decision-makers, manage stakeholder needs, support feature requests with engineering, and participate in webinars, conferences, and other marketing initiatives.

Design and manage scalable, automated customer success programs covering onboarding, adoption, engagement, and renewal. Build digital content, lifecycle campaigns, webinars, community programs, workflows, and playbooks that support customers efficiently. Analyze customer health, product usage, and engagement data to segment accounts, optimize outreach, and improve retention. Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Education, Sales, and Support teams to improve customer experiences and advocate for product enhancements.

Own post-sales relationships for commercial customers, leading technical onboarding, implementation, adoption, training, issue resolution, renewals, and expansion. Partner with Solutions Architects, Support, Product, Engineering, Sales, and customers to drive outcomes and time-to-value. Act as the customer advocate, manage escalations, develop product expertise, and independently build processes that improve customer success.

Generate enterprise pipeline through personalized outbound outreach to technical buyers, including developers, DevOps teams, security leaders, and engineering stakeholders. Partner with enterprise account executives on account strategy, qualification, messaging, and deal progression. Research modern infrastructure, understand customer risk and business priorities, use sales tools effectively, and provide market feedback to marketing and product teams.

Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

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 end-to-end Athena member experience, product strategy, roadmap, and priorities across vulnerability intake, validation, remediation, patches, advisories, feeds, registry, console, and documentation. Translate customer feedback into a prioritized backlog, align engineering and business teams, manage technical tradeoffs, measure member experience, identify risks, and mentor product peers in a technical enterprise security environment.

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

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.

Owns end-to-end development of customer platform features, including Go backend systems, REST/gRPC APIs, entitlements, policies, and onboarding services. Collaborates across engineering teams, extends AI-powered customer experiences, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives product-focused delivery in ambiguous environments.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for Chainguard’s platform. Own features end-to-end from technical design through rollout and iteration, partnering with Product and front-end teams. Develop reliable, observable cloud-native services consumed across multiple products, contribute to roadmap prioritization, and deliver iteratively in a remote startup environment.