Principal Software Engineer (Athena)

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. Principal Software Engineer Remote — US, Canada, UK Chainguard secures the open source supply chain, the infrastructure underneath the majority of software running in production today. This team is building Athena, the system that makes that possible at enterprise scale (Read more about Athena here ). It is the nerve center of that mission: we own the clearing house that takes in vulnerability data from enterprise customers, validates and deduplicates it, and routes it to remediation. This is a principal-level, advisory role for an engineer who has built production-grade distributed systems before, is accountable for strategy and scale, deeply opinionated about data quality, and wants to operate at the intersection of engineering excellence and real-world customer impact. W