• Design and implement backend services and APIs that support multiple product teams. • Own complex systems end to end, including data models, business logic, and integrations. • Build and evolve identity and access management capabilities, including authentication, authorization, roles, and permissions. • Improve reliability, performance, and observability of existing services. • Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architectural direction. • Raise the bar on code quality through reviews, refactoring, and technical standards. • Diagnose and resolve production issues, including participating in root cause analysis. • Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to scope work and manage technical tradeoffs. • Mentor other engineers through pairing, feedback, and technical guidance.

• Designing and developing technical integrations that connect Chainguard products to partner platforms such as cloud marketplaces, vulnerability scanners, and observability providers. • Building and maintaining our security advisory system, including schemas, APIs, and data feeds such as OSV and secdb. • Owning integrations with major cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, and Azure, with a focus on areas like mirroring, IAM, and proxying. • Supporting a wide array of integration targets, from VMs and containers to libraries, ensuring compatibility with vulnerability scanners and other security tools. • Working closely with external partners acting as a technical influencer and helping them adopt and verify their support for Chainguard’s products, while also building internal infrastructure to ensure correctness and compliance. • Collaborating with internal teams to scope and support integration needs for product launches and new initiatives. • Acting as a force multiplier by mentoring peers, improving team processes, and guiding architectural decisions. • Driving long-term projects (6+ months), independently or with small teams, and delivering scalable, well-architected solutions.

• Container orchestration: creation, management, and troubleshooting of Docker containers. • System health monitoring: monitoring the infrastructure with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Zabbix. • Application lifecycle management: performing application updates and patches to ensure smooth operation. • Linux administration: routine maintenance of Linux servers (Ubuntu/CentOS), including access-rights management and storage optimization. • Documentation: producing clear technical guides for internal processes.

• Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders. • Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices. • Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches. • Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories. • Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments. • Apply consistent levels of strategic thinking, judgment, decision making, attention to detail, teamwork, organization, innovation, and initiative. • Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team.