Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Chainguard
$157,000–$184,000
Jul 25, 2026
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Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining internal developer infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, shared build systems, and an agentic AI platform. The work centers on reducing friction for engineering teams, consolidating fragmented tooling into standardized delivery patterns, and scaling AI-driven automation safely into production workflows. Best suited to engineers with hands-on platform or infrastructure experience, comfort with Go, and an interest in developer productivity and supply chain tooling.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $157,000–$184,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,300–18,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
Go is listed as required but with an explicit allowance to 'ramp quickly' — the JD still places it in the requirements block, so it is treated as a hard gate.
Container-based orchestration is required but no specific platform is named in the requirements block; Kubernetes and OCI appear only in the preferred section.
LLM-based automation and context engineering are called out in the requirements block under the 'AI-forward mindset' criterion.
GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, and Buildkite appear together under 'we'd love it if you have' (preferred), so they are grouped as interchangeable preferred skills.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is mentioned in the responsibilities section as part of productionizing the Agentic AI platform — listed as preferred given it appears in the 'what you'll do' narrative rather than a hard-gate requirements block.
DORA/SPACE metrics and monorepo tooling experience appear only under the preferred section.
The posting contains an AI-application detection phrase ('bonfires are my jam') embedded in the requirements — noted here for awareness but not extracted as a hiring signal.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): container orchestration.
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