# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Hiring organization: [Redpoint Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/redpoint-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/977f9f5d-6dfd-4dbb-9d19-02c61277eee5

Listed on Redpoint Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Staff
- Location: United States - Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 205000 – 231000 USD per year

## Summary

This Staff-level role owns significant pieces of Chainguard's internal developer platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, AI-driven automation, and build systems that power the company's engineering velocity. The position suits experienced platform engineers who thrive on eliminating toil, mentoring teams, and driving cross-functional technical direction in a fast-paced, shipping-focused culture.

_Our summary, not Redpoint Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Buildkite, CI/CD, Container Orchestration, GitHub Actions, Go, Kubernetes, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

## Required

- 8+ years building and operating production services and platform infrastructure in cloud environments
- Proficiency with Go or strong readiness to ramp quickly
- Deep expertise in CI/CD systems, container-based orchestration, and monorepo-scale tooling
- Experience contributing to technical direction across multiple teams
- Familiarity with Agentic AI and LLM-based automation in production
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

## Nice to have

- Experience scaling GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Buildkite, or comparable systems at high throughput
- Experience scaling change-throughput beyond traditional PR workflows
- Background in developer experience metrics like DORA and SPACE
- Experience operating a large Go monorepo
- Familiarity with supply chain security, container ecosystems, or open source communities
- Experience publishing internal-platform milestones and running stakeholder feedback loops

Apply on Redpoint Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4707850006