Principal Software Engineer, Containers
- Where you can live
- United States - Remote
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 229,000 to 258,000 per year
- Posted
- October 16, 2026
Summary from the posting
Chainguard Containers is our core product, and this team builds it. As Principal Software Engineer in Container Product Engineering you will be the most senior individual contributor on a team of about fifteen engineers, setting the technical direction for the product and leading its largest, most consequential projects from idea to customer.
Chainguard is growing explosively. Every line of code is now written with AI in the loop, which means the foundation it runs on has to be secure by default. You will shape that foundation: the hardened container images, the registry that serves them, and the tooling that lets engineers and AI agents adopt them.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Chainguard's own career page.