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What they do

Chainguard makes hardened and verifiable builds of open source software. Its products include Chainguard Containers, Libraries, VMs, and OS Packages. Customers include Fortune 500 companies, OpenAI, Canva, and Snowflake. The team of about 500 people helped build Kubernetes, Sigstore, and Distroless.

What they value

• Be obsessed with customers.
• Act with intent: plan, test, fail, learn, and grow.
• Do serious work without taking yourself too seriously.
• Trust each other and assume good intentions.

Where they hire

Chainguard is fully remote. Each role is remote within a named country, mostly the US, and also Canada, the UK, Europe, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, and India. Engineering roles are mostly open in the US, Canada, and the UK. India roles are remote sales and solutions roles.

Teams and roles

Most engineering roles are senior or staff level, and nearly every team writes Go. Postings ask for deep experience with containers, OCI, Kubernetes, container registries, Terraform, GCP, and CI/CD.

• Factory: builds the images and packages behind Chainguard Containers.
• Registries: package registries and repository services.
• Libraries: a platform for Java, JavaScript, and Python packages.
• Platform: customer APIs, authentication, and a malware scanner for every artifact.
• AI: LLM pipelines that write package manifests and tests, an agentic AI platform with RAG, and a CI product for coding agents.
• Product security: Sigstore, SLSA, SBOMs, and vulnerability management.

A few product managers work in the US. Most other roles are in sales, sales engineering, customer success, and partner roles.

What they look for

Chainguard has a fast "ship it" culture. It wants self-directed people who are comfortable with ambiguity and own features from design to production. Postings ask people to apply when their experience is close to the requirements. The site does not describe the interview steps.