Chainguard is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to drive the technical strategy and implementation for their libraries, with a special focus on AI/ML. This role involves designing and maintaining secure, reliable, and automated build systems for AI/ML toolchain packages and related tooling to expand and maintain Chainguard's coverage over mission-critical libraries, advance build automation, and improve vulnerability remediation workflows across the package ecosystem.
Requirements
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Experience in Python packaging, including building and distributing wheels and dependencies.
- Background in compilers, toolchains, and native build systems.
- Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX) and their build/deployment ecosystems.
- Familiarity with software supply chain security best practices (SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Tekton, or similar).
- Working knowledge of Linux packaging and reproducible build systems (Alpine, Wolfi, Nix, Bazel, etc.) is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AI/ML package infrastructure, including building, testing, and distributing ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, etc.) in reproducible and secure ways
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns to support reproducible deployment of ML services and pipelines.
- Contribute to automation pipelines for building and verifying AI/ML packages (Python wheels, containers, etc.).
- Assist with troubleshooting toolchain-related build failures.
- Implement and maintain observability, CI/CD, and policy enforcement systems for AI/ML workloads and infrastructure.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies in the AI/ML ecosystem with secure-by-default packaging and reproducibility principles.
Other
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture
- Receive stock options upon hire and promotion.
- 100% Covered Health Insurance
- ∞ Flexible Time Off
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
