Senior Software Engineer (Athena)

Company: Chainguard
Apply for the Senior Software Engineer (Athena)
Location: London
Job Description:

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
  • Take on ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability
  • Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale
  • Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs
  • Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems
  • Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon
  • Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team’s engineering bar
  • Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling

Benefits

  • Equity/stock options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
  • Home office and internet stipend
  • 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family

Qualifications

  • Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plus
  • Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
  • Security or infrastructure domain knowledge
  • Solid backend engineering foundation you’ve shipped and maintained production systems
  • Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
  • You can navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
  • Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians” with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences

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Posted: June 28th, 2026