Staff Software Engineer, Containers
Redpoint Ventures PortfolioCanada - Remote; Germany - Remote; United Kingdom - Remote; United States - Remote · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$205,000 – $231,000
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What this role is
This role leads container platform engineering at a venture-backed security company, architecting and shipping major features for hardened container images and the systems that build and distribute them. It suits experienced engineers who thrive in fast-moving environments, can make high-stakes technical trade-offs across teams, and are comfortable mentoring others while staying hands-on with code.
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years building and operating production software
- Led at least one multi-engineer project end to end
- High agency and ability to unblock yourself and others
- Systems-level thinking across build, registry, distribution, and runtime
- Use agentic coding tools daily and have changed team practices with them
- Architectural depth in Go service design
- Strong API design, database, and caching knowledge
- Cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS
- Deep knowledge of containers, container registries, and OCI image format
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes
- Track record mentoring engineers and raising technical practices
- Written English fluency and remote-first team experience
Nice to have
- Software supply chain security background (SBOMs, Sigstore, SLSA)
- Familiarity with Wolfi, apko, and melange
- Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience
- Open-source project authorship or maintenance
- Non-traditional path into engineering