Jobs at Chainguard

Lead design and implementation of the Libraries Platform: services, pipelines, package index, automation for builds, CVE remediation, SBOM/provenance, AI-assisted patching, and reliability/observability for multi-ecosystem package workflows.

Owner of backend APIs and platform primitives enabling customer onboarding, entitlements, and policies. Design and build Go-based REST/gRPC services, integrate across teams, extend AI into customer experiences, mentor engineers, and drive features end-to-end from design through rollout.

Lead and build Chainguard's People function across EMEA: partner with regional leaders on performance, org and talent decisions; own end-to-end employee relations and investigations; run performance cycles; advise on country-specific employment requirements; stand up local-market infrastructure; use people analytics to guide decisions; coordinate with People Ops, Compensation, L&D, Legal, and EOR partners.

The role involves prospecting potential clients, qualifying leads, setting appointments for sales, and maintaining records in the CRM system to drive revenue growth in the cybersecurity sector.

Lead Chainguard's vulnerability pipeline: measure, disclose, and report thousands of novel vulnerabilities weekly. Run CNA/CVE assignment, coordinate embargoes, automate large-scale pipelines, and represent Chainguard in industry and public-sector forums.

Serve as primary commercial legal partner for EMEA Go-To-Market, drafting and negotiating SaaS, enterprise, services, NDA, partner agreements; ensure open source licensing, DORA and GDPR compliance; negotiate with regulated customers; create standard form agreements and online terms; manage ~4 new deals weekly; partner with Product, Security, and Sales to align legal and business objectives.

Partner with Sales to qualify and win enterprise deals by assessing technical requirements, delivering demos, POVs/POCs, and RFP/RFI responses. Own technical aspects of opportunities, secure technical wins, engage stakeholders, and represent Chainguard at webinars, meetups, and conferences while growing new logos and existing accounts.

Lead technical direction for a multi-ecosystem libraries platform: design ecosystem-agnostic indexing, build orchestration, and remediation automation from CVE detection to verified release. Drive AI/agentic patching strategy, mentor senior engineers, define SLOs, own reliability and incidents, and onboard .NET, Go, and Rust ecosystems while partnering across org teams.

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository services: build and operate high-availability backend systems in Go, design package registries and APIs, drive scalability, reliability, observability, and mentor engineers while partnering across teams to expand artifact support.

Lead and mentor an engineering team to build secure, production-ready open source libraries. Define technical direction across language ecosystems, dependency and release management, and AI-driven automation. Own comparator gates, LLM-based judge rubrics, and language-specific build systems. Improve build/test infrastructure for reproducible, auditable releases with vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM and provenance. Partner across product and engineering, and represent Chainguard externally to partners and maintainers.

Chainguard seeks an Enterprise Account Executive to drive sales, manage key accounts, and exceed quotas while building customer relationships.